Felis daemon

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Felis daemon f

  1. (archaic) A taxonomic species within the family Felidae – a population of Transcaucasian black feral cats now considered to be a part of Felis silvestris catus. [from 1904]
    • 1962, Sergeĭ Ivanovich Ognev, translated by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Mammals of Eastern Europe and Northern Asia: Carnivora (Fissipedia and Pinnipedia), page 105:
      Felis daemon is indistinguishable in skull features from the domestic cat, forming only a black form of it.
    • 1974, “Mammalian informations”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volumes 22-23, page 143:
      Satunin described Felis daemon as a separate black species. The typical specimen originated from Elizavetpol gubernia. He tried to decide whether this species is actually separate or only a melanistic form of the wild cat.
    • 1989, Karl P. N. Shuker, Mystery Cats of the World: From Blue Tigers to Exmoor Beasts, page 81:
      ... Felis daemon by the noted Russian zoologist Professor C. Satunin, basing his description upon two mounted specimens, three skins and three skulls, all housed in what is now the Leningrad Academy of Sciences
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