Profelis aurata (Temminck, 1827) . Monogr. Mamm., 1:120.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Nous ne savons pas au juste dans quelle partie du globe a été trouvé"; fixed by Van Mensch and Van Bree (1969) to "probably the coastal region of Lower Guinea (Between Cross River and River Congo...)" .

DISTRIBUTION: N Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda, S Zaire.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: celidogaster Temminck, 1827; chalybeata H[amilton], Smith, 1827; chrysothrix Temminck, 1827; cottoni Lydekker, 1906; maka Van Saceghem, 1942; neglecta Gray, 1838; rutilus Waterhouse, 1843.

COMMENTS: Revised by Van Mensch and Van Bree (1969). Placed in Profelis by Pocock (1917), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvfl (1982c), and Groves (1982a). Kräl and Zima (1980) placed in Felis .