Order Carnivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 244 289 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352980 1ce75501-9bd6-4f4f-b9de-34a393211f7b 0-89327-235-3 7352980 Felis aurata Temminck, 1827 . Monogr. Mamm., 1:120 . TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra Leone . DISTRIBUTION: Gambia to Kenya , south to Angola , S. Zaire , and Burundi . COMMENT: Type locality is uncertain; see Gray, 1838, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 1:27, for the Sierra Leone information (IR); and Van Mensch and Van Bree, 1969 , Biologia Gabon ., 4:236-269, for "probably between Cross River and River Congo" which was given in a review of the species (CPG). PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae . ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001001001.