Home About Cats Characteristics   Advertisements Advertisements Main Menu Home About Cats Articles Characteristics Filter     Order  Date asc Date desc Title asc Title desc Hits asc Hits desc Author asc Author desc Ordering    Display #  5 10 15 20 25 30 50 Date Item Title Author Hits Monday, 05 December 2005 Cat Characteristics Admin 6029   << Start < Prev 1 Next > End >> Results 1 - 1 of 1 Scientific  ( 1 items ) The domestic cat was named Felis catus by Carolus Linnaeus in his Systema Naturae of 1758. Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber named the wild cat Felis silvestris in 1775. The domestic cat is now considered a subspecies of the wild cat: by the strict rule of priority of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature the name for the species thus ought to be F. catus since Linnaeus published first. However, in practice almost all biologists use F. silvestris for the wild species, using F. catus only for the domesticated form. [ Back ]

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