Asiatic Wildcat

Asiatic Wildcat

Taxobox
name = Asiatic WildcatMSW3 Wozencraft | pages = 536-537]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Felidae
genus = "Felis"
species = "F. silvestris"
subspecies = "F. s. ornata"
trinomial = "Felis silvestris ornata"
trinomial_authority = Gray, 1832

The Asiatic Wildcat ("Felis silvestris ornata"), also known as the Asian Steppe Wildcat or Indian Desert Cat, is a subspecies of Wildcat that primarily inhabits the Rajasthan Desert, and Rann of Kutch in India. It is about the size of a Domestic Cat with a pale yellowish body marked with black spots.

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