Caracal caracal

(von Schreber, 1776)

Caracal

Front view, sitting. Also as Red Lynx|Caracal Lynx.
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Location:South Africa, Western Cape, Cape PointDate taken:Jan 1, 1973

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 126

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Feliformia
Infraorder : Aeluroidea
Superfamily : Feloidea
Family : Felidae
Subfamily : Felinae
Genus : Caracal

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Schreber, J.C.D. von. 1776. pl. 110. P. pl. 110 in Schreber, J.C.D. von. 1774-1855. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen. Walther, Erlangen.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064652

Original name as described

Felis caracal

Other common names

Red Lynx · Caracal Lynx

Type material

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Type locality

Table Mountain, near Cape Town, South Africa.

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic · Palearctic

Country distribution

Morocco · Algeria · Tunisia · Mauritania · Gambia · Senegal · Mali · Guinea · Guinea-Bissau · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Ghana · Togo · Benin · Nigeria · Niger · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Sudan · South Sudan · Egypt · Libya · Eritrea · Djibouti · Ethiopia · Somalia · Kenya · Uganda · Tanzania · Burundi? · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Angola · Zambia · Zimbabwe · Malawi · Mozambique · Botswana · Namibia · South Africa · Lesotho · Eswatini · Israel · Palestine · Lebanon · Syria · Jordan · Saudi Arabia · Kuwait · Yemen · Oman · United Arab Emirates · Turkey · Iraq · Iran · Kazakhstan · Uzbekistan · Turkmenistan · Tajikistan · Afghanistan · Pakistan · India

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005981

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 44 names and synonyms.

Felis Caracal

(P. L. S. Müller, 1776)

Family

Felidae

Root name

caracal

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

30

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51217669

Authority publication

Nuremberg

Name usages

Müller (1776:30, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51217669) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38532)

Felis caracal

(von Schreber, 1776)

Family

Felidae

Root name

caracal

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

pl. 110

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31064652

Authority publication

Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur

Name usages

  1. Erxleben (1777:524, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15873321) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36060)
  2. Borowski (1780:41, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28346999) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67757)
  3. Forster (1780:313, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57573007) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69278)
  4. Zimmermann (1783:164) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69242)
  5. Boddaert (1785:92, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28230056) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35384)
  6. Gmelin (1788:82, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25751302) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35943)
  7. Kerr (1792:156, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664180) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36283)
  8. Link (1795:91, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46272967) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35635)
  9. Wolf (1796:219) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72410)
  10. Cuvier (1797:119, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637201) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38531)
  11. Daudin (1802:161, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42033411) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64044)
  12. Turton (1802:50, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25772906) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69249)
  13. Treviranus (1802:205, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11026071) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72409)
  14. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:118) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)
  15. Treviranus (1803:180, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11028208) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/41587)
  16. Goldfuss (1809:300, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47498134) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34654)
  17. Thunberg (1811:304, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11767798) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64194)
  18. Fischer (1814:xii, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130073) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/12226)
  19. Illiger (1815:79, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080935) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38688)
  20. Muirhead (1819:419) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69481)
  21. Desmarest (1821:226, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523990) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
  22. Schinz (1821:238, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528999) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  23. Griffith (1822:62, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016265) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68342)
  24. Cuvier (1823:439, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52149630) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68281)
  25. Schinz (1825:361, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51523778) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66129)
  26. Smith (1826:31) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36081)
  27. Lesson (1827:184, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207652) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  28. Fischer (1829:210) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  29. Smuts (1832:29, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43088708) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60235)
  30. Ogilby (1839:lxiv, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2912372) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67483)
  31. Cuvier (1842:2, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44518525) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60227)
  32. Lesson (1842:55) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  33. Blainville (1843:186, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57989124) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68407)
  34. Giebel (1855:881, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45549072) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38563)
  35. Loche (1858:8, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41949444) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60564)
  36. Blyth (1863:64, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47534692) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37155)
  37. Murray (1866:323, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580319) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  38. Jerdon (1867:113, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37299830) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68353)
  39. Loche (1867:40) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68800)
  40. Stoliczka (1872:227, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37137943) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67309)
  41. Sclater (1872:39, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17037816) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61617)
  42. Heuglin (1877:55, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36876386) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66584)
  43. Danford & Alston (1880:52, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28522156) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68533)
  44. Noack (1887:259, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10356299) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67855)
  45. Yerbury & Thomas (1895:548, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30983547) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15197)
  46. Wroughton (1907:14, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34063320) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68769)
  47. Lydekker (1908:444, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18741664) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39820)
  48. Ward (1910:507, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15016150) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39628)
  49. Flower (1932:391) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/14201)
  50. Dollman (1932:3) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69478)
  51. Setzer (1956:560, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7489166) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5501)
  52. Corbet & Hill (1980:104) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  53. Corbet & Hill (1991:113) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)
  54. Yalden, Largen, Kock & Hillman (1996:104) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36072)

Felis Lynx bengalensis

(Kerr, 1792)

Family

Felidae

Root name

bengalensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

156

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664180

Authority publication

Edinburgh

Name usages

Kerr (1792:156, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664180) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36283)

Felis Caracal Bengalensis

(J. B. Fischer, 1829)

Family

Felidae

Root name

bengalensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

210

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

  1. Fischer (1829:210) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  2. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Felis Caracal Nubicus

(J. B. Fischer, 1829)

Family

Felidae

Root name

nubicus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

nonexistent

Authority page

210

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

  1. Fischer (1829:210) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  2. Setzer (1956:560, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7489166) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5501)

Lynceus Caracal

(Burnett, 1830)

Family

Felidae

Root name

caracal

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

349

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3909459

Authority publication

Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and Art

Name usages

Burnett (1830:349, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3909459) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/44017)

Felis caracal var. algira

(M. Wagner, 1841)

Family

Felidae

Root name

algirus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

76

Authority publication

book

Caracal melanotis

J. E. Gray, 1843

Family

Felidae

Root name

melanotis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

46

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53729649

Authority publication

British Museum Catalogue

Name usages

  1. Gray (1867:277, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29533717) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37913)
  2. Gray (1869:38, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8396934) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37331)
  3. Rochebrune (1883:127, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26187580) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/43667)
  4. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Lynchus (Urolynchus) caracal

(Severtzov, 1858)

Family

Felidae

Root name

caracal

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

389

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2316805

Authority publication

Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée

Name usages

Severtsov (1858:389, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2316805) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68920)

Lynx lucani

(A. T. de Rochebrune, 1885)

Family

Felidae

Root name

lucani

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

87

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31945681

Authority publication

Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris

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