FELIDAE Fisher de Waldheim, 1817

Amori, Giovanni, Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Decher, Jan, Assou, Delagnon, Gippoliti, Spartaco & Luiselli, Luca, 2016, Non-marine mammals of Togo (West Africa): an annotated checklist, Zoosystema 38 (2), pp. 201-244 : 212

Family FELIDAE Fisher de Waldheim, 1817

Acinonyx jubatus (Schreber, 1775) ▶

ORIGINAL DATA. — Currently present in Oti-Kéran National Park.

Caracal aurata (Temminck, 1827) ▶

HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — This species was first reported to occur in Togo (at Bismarckburg) by Matschie (1893b).

VOUCHERS. — Three vouchers are deposited at ZMB, and were captured at Bismarkburg (Adéle) and Misahohe.

REMARK

Wozencraft (2005) placed this species in the genus Profelis Severtzov, 1858 .

Caracal caracal (Schreber, 1776) ▶

VOUCHERS. — A voucher from Bassari is currently stored in the ZMB.

REMARK

Reported for the country by IUCN (2014), and indirectly by Wozencraft (2005).

Felis silvestris Schreber, 1777 ▶

VOUCHERS. — Five vouchers, coming from Sokodé, are currently stored in the ZMB.

REMARK

The African wild cat has been generally included in Felis silvestris by most recent works ( Wozencraft 2005). This arrangement is rather unsatisfactory and there is a need of a complete taxonomic revision of the species complex in Africa.

Leptailurus serval (Schreber, 1776) ▶

HISTORICAL LITERATURE. — Its presence in Togo was firstly reported by Matschie (1893a, b), who collected it from Bismarckburg (Adéle).

VOUCHERS. — Sixteen ZMB vouchers came from Bismarckburg (Adéle), Sokodé, and Aného (Petit Popo).

ORIGINAL DATA. — Skins of this species were observed in several villages of the ecological zone IV (Kpalimé and Badou areas), often at the transition zone between semideciduous forests and forestderived savannahs (2012-2015).

REMARK. — In Togo, it occurs the subspecies togoensis (Matschie, 1893) , that is still considered valid.