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Pardofelis marmorata
– Vulnerable
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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MAMMALIA
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Order:
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CARNIVORA
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Family:
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FELIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Pardofelis marmorata
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Species Authority:
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Martin, 1837
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Common Name/s:
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MARBLED CAT (Eng)
CHAT MARBRÉ (Fre)
GATO JASPEADO (Spa)
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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VU C2a(i) ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2002
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Assessor/s:
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Cat Specialist Group
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Evaluator/s:
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Nowell, K., Breitenmoser, U. & Jackson, P. (Cat Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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Based on estimates of density and geographic range (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Grassman 2001), the marbled cat’s total effective population size is estimated at below 10,000 mature breeding individuals, with a declining trend due to habitat and prey base loss and persecution, and no subpopulation containing more than 1,000 mature breeding individuals.
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History:
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| 1986 | - | Indeterminate as Felis marmorata (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986) |
| 1988 | - | Indeterminate as Felis marmorata (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988) |
| 1990 | - | Indeterminate as Felis marmorata (IUCN 1990) |
| 1994 | - | Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994) |
| 1996 | - | Data Deficient (Baillie and Groombridge 1996) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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This species is known from south and southeast Asia.
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Countries:
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Native:
Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; China; India; Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatera); Lao People's Democratic Republic; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Thailand; Viet Nam
Uncertain presence and origin:
Bangladesh; Bhutan
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Population
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Population:
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It is rarely seen in the wild, although over the 1990s a few camera trap photos have been collected and a female was radio-collared in Thailand’s Phu Khieu National Park (K. Nowell, pers. comm., Grassman 2001).
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Population Trend:
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Habitat and Ecology
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Habitat and Ecology:
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The marbled cat is primarily an animal of moist tropical forest, but there is only anecdotal information on the specificity of its habitat requirements. The range of habitat types the species has been recorded in includes mixed deciduous-evergreen forest areas, secondary forest, clearings, six-year-old logged forest, Dipterocarp forest, and one animal that was described as living on the river cliff, which consisted of rocks overgrown with scrub and low bush (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
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System:
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Terrestrial; Freshwater; Marine
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Threats
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Threats:
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The marbled cat is primarily threatened by habitat loss; the degree of forest clearance the species can tolerate needs investigation. The marbled cat is rarely encountered in the illegal wildlife trade in Asia (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
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Conservation Actions
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Conservation Actions:
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Included on CITES Appendix I. Hunting of this species is prohibited in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (Yunnan only), India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand. Hunting regulations are in place in Laos, Singapore (Nowell and Jackson 1996).
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