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The Caucasian wildcat (''Felis silvestris caucasica'') is a European wildcat
The Caucasian wildcat differs from the European wildcat by being lighter gray in colour, with a fainter pattern on the sides and the tail. It is similar in size, measuring in head to body length, in shoulder height. It weighs , rarely more than .
subspecies
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that inhabits the Caucasus Mountains and Turkey.
Taxonomy
''Felis silvestris caucasica'' was described by Konstantin Satunin in 1905 on the basis of a skin of a female cat collected near Borjomi in Georgia. ''Felis silvestris trapezia'' was proposed in 1916 for a male zoological specimen in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London, which originated in the vicinity of Trabzon in northern Turkey.Characteristics
The Caucasian wildcat differs from the European wildcat by being lighter gray in colour, with a fainter pattern on the sides and the tail. It is similar in size, measuring in head to body length, in shoulder height. It weighs , rarely more than .
Distribution and habitat
In Turkey, the wildcat is considered common inmesic
Mesic may refer to:
* Mesic, North Carolina, a town in the United States
* Mesic habitat, a type of habitat
See also
*Mesić (disambiguation)
*Mešić Mešić is a Bosnian surname, a patronymic derived from the masculine given name '' Meša'', it ...
and mixed oak-beech
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forests of the Pontic Mountains, but rare in the Marmara and Aegean Sea regions. In the Taurus Mountains, it probably only occurs in deciduous forest of Kahramanmaraş Province. It is possibly extinct in the Eastern Anatolia Region.
References
Wildcats European wildcat subspecies Mammals described in 1905 Mammals of Turkey Fauna of Georgia (country) Mammals of Azerbaijan Fauna of Armenia {{cat-stub