Editing Rusty-spotted cat (section)

==Taxonomy==
''Felis rubiginosa'' was the [[scientific name]] used by [[Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]] in 1831 for a rusty-spotted cat specimen from [[Puducherry district|Pondicherry]], India.<ref name=Geoffroy1831>{{cite book |last1=Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire |first1=I. |year=1831 |chapter=Le Chat à Taches de Rouille, ''Felis rubiginosa'' (Nob.) |chapter-url=https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10469043?page=182 |pages=140–144 |title=Voyage aux Indes-Orientales par le nord de l'Europe, les provinces du Caucases, la Géorgie, l'Arménie et la Perse, suivi des détails topographiques, statistiques et autre sur le Pégou, les Iles de Jave, de Maurice et de Bourbon, sur le Cap-de-bonne-Espérance et Sainte-Hélène, pendant les années 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829. Tome 3: Zoologie |editor1-last=Bélanger |editor1-first=C. |editor2-last=Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire |editor2-first=I. |publisher=Arthus Bertrand |location=Paris}}</ref> ''Prionailurus'' was proposed by [[Nikolai Severtzov]] in 1858 as a [[Generic name (biology)|generic name]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Severtzow |first1=M. N. |year=1858 |title=Notice sur la classification multisériale des Carnivores, spécialement des Félidés, et les études de zoologie générale qui s'y rattachent |journal=Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée |volume=X |pages=385–396 |url=https://archive.org/stream/revueetmagasinde10soci#page/386/mode/2up}}</ref> ''Prionailurus rubiginosus phillipsi'' was proposed by [[Reginald Innes Pocock]] in 1939 who described a specimen from [[Central Province, Sri Lanka]] and subordinated both to the genus ''Prionailurus''.<ref name=Pocock39/>

=== Phylogeny ===
[[Phylogenetic]] analysis of the [[nuclear DNA]] in tissue samples from all Felidae species revealed that the [[evolutionary radiation]] of the Felidae began in Asia in the [[Miocene]] around {{mya|14.45|8.38}}.<ref name=Johnson2006>{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=W. E. |last2=Eizirik |first2=E. |last3=Pecon-Slattery |first3=J. |last4=Murphy |first4=W. J. |author5=Antunes, A. |author6=Teeling, E. |author7=O'Brien, S. J. |name-list-style=amp |year=2006 |doi=10.1126/science.1122277 |title=The Late Miocene radiation of modern Felidae: A genetic assessment |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=311 |pages=73–77 |pmid=16400146 |issue=5757 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/1230866 |bibcode=2006Sci...311...73J |s2cid=41672825 |access-date=2020-05-04 |archive-date=2020-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004075725/https://zenodo.org/record/1230866 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Werdelin2010>{{cite book |last1=Werdelin |first1=L. |last2=Yamaguchi |first2=N. |last3=Johnson |first3=W. E. |last4=O'Brien |first4=S. J. |name-list-style=amp |chapter=Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae) |year=2010 |pages=59–82 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266755142 |editor1-last=Macdonald |editor1-first=D. W. |editor2-last=Loveridge |editor2-first=A. J. |title=Biology and Conservation of Wild Felids |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=978-0-19-923445-5 |access-date=2020-05-04 |archive-date=2018-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925141956/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266755142 |url-status=live }}</ref> Analysis of [[mitochondrial DNA]] of all Felidae species indicates a radiation at around {{mya|16.76|6.46}}.<ref name=Li_al2016>{{cite journal |author=Li, G. |author2=Davis, B. W. |author3=Eizirik, E. |name-list-style=amp |author4=Murphy, W. J. |year=2016 |title=Phylogenomic evidence for ancient hybridization in the genomes of living cats (Felidae) |journal=Genome Research |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1101/gr.186668.114 |pmid=26518481 |pmc=4691742}}</ref>

The ''Prionailurus'' species are estimated to have had a [[common ancestor]] between {{mya|8.16|4.53}},<ref name=Johnson2006/> and {{mya|8.76|0.73}}.<ref name=Li_al2016/> The rusty-spotted cat possibly [[Genetic divergence|genetically diverged]] from this ancestor between {{mya|6.54|3.42}}.<ref name=Johnson2006/> Both models agree in the rusty-spotted cat having been the first cat of this [[Lineage (genetic)|lineage]] that diverged, followed by the [[flat-headed cat]] (''P. planiceps'') and the [[fishing cat]] (''P. viverrinus'').<ref name=Johnson2006/><ref name=Li_al2016/> The following [[cladogram]] shows the phylogenetic relationships of the rusty-spotted cat as derived through analysis of nuclear DNA:<ref name=Johnson2006/><ref name=Werdelin2010/>

{{cladogram |align=left |style=font-size:90%;line-height:100%;width:500px;
 |cladogram={{clade |label1=[[Felidae]]
 |1={{clade |label1=[[Felinae]]
   |1={{clade
    |1={{clade
       |1={{clade |label1=''Prionailurus''
         |1={{clade
           |1={{clade
            |1={{clade
             |1={{clade
               |1=Leopard cat
               |2=Fishing Cat }}
             |2=Flat-headed cat }}
           |2='''Rusty-spotted cat''' }} }}
       |2=[[Pallas's cat]] (''O. manul'') |label2=''Otocolobus''}} }}
    |2=other Felinae lineages }}
   |2=[[Pantherinae]] }} }} }}
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