Catopuma badia

– Endangered

Taxonomy

Kingdom:	ANIMALIA
Phylum:	CHORDATA
Class:	MAMMALIA
Order:	CARNIVORA
Family:	FELIDAE
Scientific Name:	Catopuma badia
Species Authority:	(Gray, 1874)
Common Name/s:	BAY CAT (Eng) BORNEAN BAY CAT (Eng) BORNEAN MARBLED CAT (Eng) CHAT BAI (Fre) GATO ROJO DE BORNEO (Spa)
Taxonomic Notes:	Generic synonyms = Badiofelis, Herpailurus, Leptailurus, Mayailurus, Otocolobus, Prionailurus.

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

EN C2a(ii) ver 3.1 (2001)

Year Assessed:

2002

Assessor/s:

Cat Specialist Group

Evaluator/s:

Nowell, K., Breitenmoser, U., Breitenmoser, C. & Jackson, P. (Cat Red List Authority)

Justification:

C. badia is known only from the island of Borneo, and has long been considered rare (Hose 1893). Records over the past 100 years consist of a few skins and sightings; there are none (officially) in captivity. Based on estimates of geographic range and average densities of other small tropical rainforest cats (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Grassman 2001), the Bornean Bay Cat’s total effective population size is estimated at below 2,500 mature breeding individuals, with a declining trend due to habitat loss, and all individuals in one population.

History:

1986	-	Rare as Felis badia (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Rare as Felis badia (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Rare as Felis badia (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)
1996	-	Vulnerable (Baillie and Groombridge 1996)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Brunei Darussalam; Indonesia (Kalimantan); Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak)

Population

Population:

There are less than ten museum specimens of C. badia. around the world (Sunquist et al. 1994, Schauenberg 2001). The Borneo bay cat has been seen in the wild just a handful of times by biologists, and local people describe it as uncommon (Nowell and Jackson 1996). Meijaard’s (1997) collection of anecdotal sighting reports indicated a concentration in the more remote, montane central part of the island.

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

Habitat and Ecology:	Little is known of the habitat and ecology of C. badia. Meijaard’s (1997) review of sightings found the cat in several forest types, including hill forest up to 500 metres a.s.l., lowland Dipterocarp forest and also swamp forest.
System:	Terrestrial; Freshwater; Marine

Threats

Threats:

There has been intensive commercial logging on Borneo over the 1990s, and increasing forest loss through urban resettlement programs. Wildlife traders are aware of the species rarity, and bay cats have been captured illegally from the wild for the skin and pet markets.

Conservation Actions

Conservation Actions:

C. badia is included on CITES Appenidx II. It is fully protected by national legislation across most of its range. Hunting and trade are prohibited in Indonesia (Kalimantan) and Malaysia (Sabah and Sarawak) (Nowell and Jackson 1996).

Citation:	Cat Specialist Group 2002. Catopuma badia. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 12 May 2008.
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