Family Felidae G. Fischer, 1817 . Mém. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscow, 5:372.

COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1917, 1951), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kräl and Zima (1980), Kratochvfl (1982c), Groves (1982a), and Collier and O'Brien (1985). Some (Honacki et al., 1982; Van Gelder, 1977b) have followed Simpson (1945) and placed the majority of taxa in Felis, except for the large cats ( Panthera and Acinonyx); however, this is not well supported by primary systematic studies and only poorly represents relationships below the family level. Although taxonomic disagreements appear at first to be considerable, most revolve around the recognition of categories at the generic versus the subgeneric level and interpretations of degrees of similarity.