Camera trap records of Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus and Leopard Cat Prionailurus bengalensis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) from Papikonda National Park, northern Eastern Ghats, India

Autor: Vikram Aditya, Thyagarajan Ganesh
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Journal of Threatened Taxa, Vol 8, Iss 5, Pp 8818-8819 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0974-7893
0974-7907
DOI: 10.11609/jott.2401.8.5.8818-8819
Popis: The genus Prionailurus consists of forest dwelling spotted cats ranging across most of India (Sunquist and Sunquist 2002, Menon 2003). Few studies have been done on their presence and distribution across the Eastern Ghats. The present note reports the first camera trap records of the Leopard Cat Prionailurus benghalensis Kerr, 1792 and Rusty Spotted Cat, Prionailurus rubiginosus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831 from the Papikonda National Park, situated in the northern Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh.
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