Editing Felis (section)

==Characteristics==
''Felis'' species have high and wide skulls, short jaws and narrow ears with short tufts, but without any white spots on the back of the ears. Their [[pupil]]s contract to a vertical slit.<ref name="Pocock1951" />
A black cat from [[Transcaucasia]] described in 1904 as ''F. daemon'' by [[Konstantin Alekseevich Satunin|Satunin]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Satunin |first1=C. |title=The Black Wild Cat of Transcaucasia |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |date=1904 |volume=II |pages=162–163 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08325.x |url= https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo19042zool/page/162}}</ref> turned out to be a [[feral cat]], probably a [[Crossbreeding|hybrid]] of wildcat and domestic cat.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bukhnikashvili |editor1-first=A. |editor2-last=Yevlampiev |editor2-first=I. |url= http://caucasian-large-mammalian.narod.ru/catalogue_english.pdf |title=Catalogue of the Specimens of Caucasian Large Mammalian Fauna in the Collection |publisher=[[Georgian National Museum]] |location=Tbilisi}}</ref>
The [[Kellas cat]] is a hybrid between domestic cat and European wildcat occurring in [[Scotland]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kitchener |first1=C. |last2=Easterbee |first2=N. |date=1992 |title=The taxonomic status of black wild felids in Scotland |journal=Journal of Zoology |volume=227 |issue=2 |pages=342−346 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb04832.x}}</ref>

The [[Corsican wildcat]] is considered to have been introduced to Corsica before the beginning of the 1st millennium.<ref name=Vigne1992>{{cite journal |last1=Vigne |first1=J.-D. |title=Zooarchaeology and the biogeographical history of the mammals of Corsica and Sardinia since the last ice age |date=1992 |journal=Mammal Review |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=87–96 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2907.1992.tb00124.x}}</ref><ref name=CatSG2017>{{cite journal |last1=Kitchener |first1=A. C. |last2=Breitenmoser-Würsten |first2=C. |last3=Eizirik |first3=E. |last4=Gentry |first4=A. |last5=Werdelin |first5=L. |last6=Wilting |first6=A. |last7=Yamaguchi |first7=N. |last8=Abramov |first8=A. V. |last9=Christiansen |first9=P. |last10=Driscoll |first10=C. |last11=Duckworth |first11=J. W. |last12=Johnson |first12=W. |last13=Luo |first13=S.-J. |last14=Meijaard |first14=E. |last15=O’Donoghue |first15=P. |last16=Sanderson |first16=J. |last17=Seymour |first17=K. |last18=Bruford |first18=M. |last19=Groves |first19=C. |last20=Hoffmann |first20=M. |last21=Nowell |first21=K. |last22=Timmons |first22=Z. |last23=Tobe |first23=S. |date=2017 |title=A revised taxonomy of the Felidae: The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN Cat Specialist Group |journal=Cat News |volume=Special Issue 11 |pages=17−20 |url= https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/32616/A_revised_Felidae_Taxonomy_CatNews.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}}</ref> A genetic study of a dozen individuals showed that they are closely related to the African wildcat originating in the Middle East.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.livescience.com/65744-cat-fox-new-species.html |title=Meet the Cat-Fox, an Oddball Feline Roaming Around a French Island |last=Saplakoglu |first=Y. |date=2019 |website=Live Science |access-date=25 June 2019}}</ref>