Felinae

The members of the Felinae have retractile claws that are protected by at least one cutaneous lobe. Their larynx is kept close to the base of the skull by an ossified hyoid.^[5] They can purr owing to the vocal folds being shorter than 6 mm (0.24 in).^[6][7] The cheetah Acinonyx does not have cutaneous sheaths for guarding claws.^[8]

The term 'Felini' was first used in 1817 by Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, at the time for all the cat species that had been proposed as belonging to the genus Felis.^[9] In 1917, Reginald Innes Pocock also subordinated the following genera to the Felinae that had been proposed in the course of the 19th century: Lynx, Puma, Leptailurus, Prionailurus, Pardofelis, Leopardus, Herpailurus, Neofelis and four more.^[5]

The Felinae and Pantherinae probably diverged about 11.5 million years ago. The genera within the Felinae diverged between 10.67 and 4.23 million years ago.^[10][11]

Today, the following living genera and species are recognised as belonging to the Felinae:^[2]

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Genus	Species	Image of type species	Range
Acinonyx Brookes, 1828[12]	Cheetah (A. jubatus) Schreber, 1777[13]		Africa and Southwestern Asia
Caracal Gray, 1843[14]	Caracal (C. caracal) (Schreber, 1776)[15] African golden cat (C. aurata) (Temminck, 1827)[16]		Africa and Southwestern Asia
Catopuma Severtzov, 1858[17]	Asian golden cat (C. temminckii) (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)[18] Bay cat (C. badia) (Gray, 1874)[19]		Southeastern Asia
Felis Linnaeus, 1758[20]	Domestic cat (F. catus) Linnaeus, 1758[20] European wildcat (F. silvestris) Schreber, 1777[21] Jungle cat (F. chaus) Schreber, 1777[22] African wildcat (F. lybica) Forster, 1780[23] Black-footed cat (F. nigripes) Burchell, 1824[24] Sand cat (F. margarita) Loche, 1858[25] Chinese mountain cat (F. bieti) Milne-Edwards, 1892[26]		Afro-Eurasia Worldwide (Domestic Cat)
Herpailurus Severtzov, 1858[17]	Jaguarundi (H. yagouaroundi) (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)[27]		Central and Southern America
Leopardus Gray, 1842[28]	Ocelot (L. pardalis) (Linnaeus, 1758)[29] Oncilla (L. tigrinus) (Schreber, 1775)[30] Pampas cat (L. colocolo) (Molina, 1782)[31] Kodkod (L. guigna) (Molina, 1782)[31] Margay (L. wiedii) (Schinz, 1821)[32] Geoffroy's cat (L. geoffroyi) (d'Orbigny & Gervais, 1844)[33] Andean mountain cat (L. jacobitus) (Cornalia, 1865)[34] Southern tiger cat (L. guttulus) (Hensel, 1872)[35]		Central and Southern America
Leptailurus Severtzov, 1858[17]	Serval (L. serval) (Schreber, 1775)[36]		Africa
Lynx Kerr, 1792[37]	Eurasian lynx (L. lynx) (Linnaeus, 1758)[38] Bobcat (L. rufus) (Schreber, 1777)[39] Canada lynx (L. canadensis) Kerr, 1792[37] Iberian lynx (L. pardinus) (Temminck, 1827)[40]		Northern Hemisphere
Otocolobus Brandt, 1842[41]	Pallas's cat (O. manul) (Pallas, 1776)[42]		Central Asia
Pardofelis Severtzov, 1858[17]	Marbled cat (P. marmorata) (Martin, 1836)[43]		Southeastern Asia
Prionailurus Severtzov, 1858[17]	Leopard cat (P. bengalensis) (Kerr, 1792)[44] Sunda leopard cat (P. javanensis) (Desmarest, 1816)[45] Flat-headed cat (P. planiceps) (Vigors & Horsfield, 1827)[18] Fishing cat (P. viverrinus) (Bennett, 1833)[46] Rusty-spotted cat (P. rubiginosus) (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1834)[47]		Southeastern and Eastern Asia
Puma Jardine 1834[48]	Cougar (P. concolor) Linnaeus, 1771[49]		Americas

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Extinct taxa

More information Genus, Species ...

Genus	Species	Image
Felis	Felis lunensis
Acinonyx	A. aicha A. intermedius A. pardinensis
Lynx	L. issiodorensis L. rexroadensis[50][51] L. thomasi
Puma	P. lacustris P. pardoides P. pumoides
Leopardus	L. vorohuensis
Leptofelis Salesa et al., 2017	L. vallesiensis
Miracinonyx Adams, 1979[52]	M. inexpectatus M. trumani
Pratifelis Hibbard, 1934	P. martini
Pristifelis Salesa et al., 2012	P. attica
Sivapanthera Kretzoi, 1929[53]	S. arvernensis S. brachygnathus S. linxiaensis S. padhriensis S. pleistocaenicus S. potens
Sivapardus Bikr, 1969[citation needed]	S. punjabiensis
Vishnufelis Pilgrim, 1932	V. laticeps

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