Leopard Cat (P. bengalensis)(Kerr, 1792)Found in Asia and Eurasia [see 3. Distribution] |
Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) (Linnaeus, 1758) Found in South America |
Margay (Leopardus wiedii) (Schinz, 1821) Found in Central and South America |
Figure 6: Leopard cat (P. bengalensis) in Zoo Olomouc, Czech Republic. Source: BioLib.cz (Photo by Milan Kořínek, used with permission) |
Figure 7: Captive L. pardalis in Beardsley Zoo, Connecticut. Source: Animal Diversity Web (Photo by James Dowling-Healey, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 License) |
Figure 8: L.wiedii. Source: EOL (Photo by Brian Gratwicke, Creative Commons BY 2.0 License) |
Name of Subspecies |
Range |
P. b. alleni Sody, 1949 |
Hainan Island[30] |
P. b. bengalensis (Kerr, 1792) |
India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Indo-china and Yunnan in China[31] |
P. b. borneoensis Brongersma, 1936 |
Borneo[32] |
P. b. chinensis (Gray, 1837) |
Taiwan and China except Yunnan[33] |
P. b. euptilurus (Elliott, 1871) |
Northeastern Eurasian continent, Korean Peninsula, Tsushima Islands in Japan[34] |
P. b. heaneyi Groves, 1997 |
Palawan island in the Philippines[35] |
P. b. horsfieldi (Gray, 1842) |
Kashmir, Punjab, Kumaon, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim[36] |
P. b iriomotensis (Imaizumi, 1967) |
Iriomote Islands in Japan[37][38] |
P. b. javanensis (Desmarest, 1816) |
Java, Bali[39] |
P. b. rabori Groves, 1997 |
Negros, Panay and Cebu islands in the Philippines[40] |
P. b. sumatranus (Horsfield, 1821) |
Sumatra and offshore island of Tebingtinggi[41] |
P. b. trevelyani (Pocock, 1939) |
Northern Kashmir, upper Punjab and Southern Baluchistan[42] |