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 margarita Loche, 1858 . Rev. Mag. ZooL Paris, ser. 2, 10(2):49 . TYPE LOCALITY: Algeria , N. of Ouargla , near Negonca . DISTRIBUTION: Deserts from S. Morocco ; Senegal ; Algeria ; Niger ; Egypt ; probably Sinai ; S.E. Arabia; N. Iran ; Turkestan; Baluchistan. COMMENT: Includes thinobia; see Corbet, 1978:182. Revised by Hemmer et al., 1976 . Z. Saugetierk., 41:286. See also Schauenberg, 1974 , Rev. Suisse ZooL, 81:949-969 for geographic variation, distribution, systematics and ecology. F. marginata is a lapsus; see Gray, 1867, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1867:275. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae . ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001017001.