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 bieti Milne-Edwards 1892 Felis bieti Milne-Edwards 1892 , Rev. Gen. Sci. Pures Appl., 3: 671 . Type Locality: "Batang Tatsien-Lou", restricted by Pousargues (1898:358) to "environ de Tongolo et de Ta-tsien-lou" [ China , Sichuan ]. Vernacular Names: Chinese Mountain Cat . Synonyms: Felis pallida Büchner 1892 ; Felis subpallida Jacobi 1923 . Distribution: China (E Qinghai and N Sichuan ; see He et al., 2004 ). Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable. Discussion: Haltenorth (1953) suggested chutuchta and vellerosa belonged in silvestris (followed here). F. bieti , margarita , nigripes , and chaus are considered closely related by Hemmer (1978) , Collier and O'Brien (1985) , Salles (1992) , and Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999) .