Small Wild Cats List

The black-footed cats are also considered as rare wild cat species.

Small wild cats list. This wild cat species list shows the 40 wild cats in the felidae family with their common names and scientific names species names. The term small cats may also refer more narrowly to the members of the genus Felis. In reality there are a few small cat species that most people dont even know exist that make.

The colocolo includes small wild cats that were previously recognized as three different species. The six small wild cats in this lineage are all closely related and distributed in africa and eurasia. These cats primarily inhabit the mixed temperate rainforests in their range but are also found in other habitats like the fringes of human settlements and secondary forests.

Long ear tufts short bobbed tail with a completely black tip large paws and long hind legs. The smallest wild cats in the world including the Sand cat of the Sahara the Flat-headed cat of Southeast Asia and the Margay of Central. They occur only in central and southern Chile with small population in Argentina.

The former group includes the jaguar and the cougar while the latter includes the ocelot the Canadian lynx the bobcat and the jaguarundi. Wild Cat Common Name Wild Cat Species Name Wild Cat Continent Range. A rare small wild species that are outnumbered by other wild cats on its native island of Borneo which is divided into Malaysia Brunei and IndonesiaWith the remains of one first mistaken for those of an Asian golden cat but actually much smaller in size it was determined that both had a common ancestor that diverged for 49 to 53 million years way before.

The most noticeable feature of Pallas cats is their long beautiful coat. Female Toyger cats weigh between 7 and 10 pounds and the males are 10-15 pounds. They are found in the moist temperate forests of the Andean and Coastal ranges.

Similar in appearance to a bobcat. KodKod cat has the smallest range among wild cats in the Americas. The bottom three cats are the smallest with probably the Rusty-spotted cat pictured above the smallest of all wild cat species but there is not a lot of research so the figures for the rarer wild cats are open to amendment.