Variability of coat‐colour and markings system inFelis silvestris
作者:
Bernardino Ragni,
Mariagrazia Possenti,
期刊:
Italian Journal of Zoology
(Taylor Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 63,
issue 3
页码: 285-292
ISSN:1125-0003
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1080/11250009609356146
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Felis silvestris;Coat‐colour and markings patterns;Mammal taxonomy
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Populations ofFelis silvestris, the European, Asian and African wildcats, and the domestic cat, are characterized by a variable, genetically controlled, coat‐colour and markings system. Samples of the three Italian cats, the European, the Sardinian (belonging to the African group) and the domestic striped tabby were studied for com position and occurrence of coat‐colour and markings patterns, as well as for their association with craniometric and splanchnometric categories. Intergroup differences in the coat‐colour and markings system were consistent with known metric differences. It was thus possible to distinguish, objectively, the three cats from each other by means of coat patterns, even more clearly than with metric procedures. Distances between taxa, calculated through the relative frequencies of the coat patterns, were fully consistent with those measured from allele frequencies for polymorphic loci. This confirm ed the polytypical species status ofFelis silvestris.
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