Felis rubiginosa I. Geoffroy, 1831 . Zool. Voy. de Belanger Indes Orient. Zool., p. 140.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Pondicherry .

DISTRIBUTION: India; Sri Lanka; Kashmir.

COMMENT: See Chakraborty, 1978, J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 75:478-479 for discussion of distribution.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I (Indian population only).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001023001.