Felis ferus Erxleben, 1777

Felis ferus Erxleben, 1777: 518 .

COMMON NAME. — Wildcat.1962-1113.

CURRENT NAME. — Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777 .

See Wozencraft (2005: 536), and Sunquist & Sunquist (2009: 167).

COLLECTOR/S. — Initially collected by Pieter Heinrich Polemann [1779-1839] and provided to the Baudin expedition at Cape Town (Péron 1804a). One animal was taken back to France aboard Le G é ographe (Jangoux et al. 2010: 269).

COLLECTION LOCALITY. — Cape Town, South Africa.

COLLECTION DATE. — Before 24 January 1804.

SPECIMEN NUMBER/S. — No specimen identified in MNHN collection.

ILLUSTRATIONS. — No data.