Order Carnivora Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 532 628 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Felis margarita Loche 1858 Felis margarita Loche 1858 , Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, ser. 2, 10: 49 . Type Locality: "environs de Négonca (Sahara)" [ Algeria ]. Vernacular Names: Sand Cat . Subspecies: : Subspecies Felis margarita subsp. margarita Loche 1858 Subspecies Felis margarita subsp. airensis Pocock 1951 Subspecies Felis margarita subsp. harrisoni Hemmer, Grubb and Groves 1976 Subspecies Felis margarita subsp. meinertzhageni Pocock 1938 Subspecies Felis margarita subsp. scheffeli Hemmer 1974 Subspecies Felis margarita subsp. thinobia Ognev 1927 Distribution: Afghanistan (?), Algeria , Chad , Egypt , Iran (?), Iraq (?), Israel , Jordan , Kazakhstan , Kuwait , Libya (?), Mali (?), Mauritania (?), Morocco , Niger , Oman , Pakistan , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Sudan (?), Syrian Arab Republic (?), Turkmenistan , United Arab Emirates , Uzbekistan , Western Sahara (?), Yemen . Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; U.S. ESA – Endangered as F. margarita scheffeli ; IUCN – Near Threatened. Discussion: Revised by Schauenberg (1974) and Hemmer et al. (1976) . Pocock (1951) and Schauenberg (1974) included Eremaelurus thinobia , which was recognized as separate by Haltenorth (1953) and Weigel (1961) , but see discussion by Hemmer et al. (1976) . Král and Zima (1980) suggested this species was closely related to F. manul . Subspecies allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) , Pocock (1951) , Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) , Schauenberg (1974) , and Hemmer et al. (1976) .