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 bengalensis Kerr, 1792 . Anim. Kingdom, 1:151 . TYPE LOCALITY: India , Bengal, Sunderbans . DISTRIBUTION: Lower Amur (E. Siberia) through Korea and N.E. China and most of the Oriental region west to Baluchistan, and southeast to Taiwan ; Philippine Isis., Java, Bali, and Borneo. COMMENT: Includes euptilura from E. Siberia; see Corbet, 1978:184; but also see Gromov and Baranova, 1981:285 , who listed euptilura as a distinct species. Includes minuta; see Chasen, 1940:108 . See Heptner, 1971 , Zool. Zh., 50: 1720, for discussion of systematics. Subspecies extremely variable (AHS). PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae . CITES - Appendix I and U.S. ESA - Endangered as F. b. bengalensis subspecies only. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001003001.