Abstract
We report sighting of Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus in Pondicherry along the coast of Tamil Nadu and its co-existence with the Jungle Cat Felis chaus.
Highlights
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1831) mentions the type locality of the Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus ISSN 0974-7907 (Online) rubiginosus as Pondicherry (“bois ISSN 0974-7893 (Print) de lataniers qui couvertune hauteur voisine de Pondicherry”) OPEN ACCESS and this finding was corroborated by Pocock (1939) and at the time of writing there were three skins in the British Museum - from Madras ( Chennai, on the East Coast), Nellore and Khandala
All records of the occurrence of the species are from the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu (Jayson & Christopher 1996; Pillay 2008; Srinivas et al 2013; Mukherjee & Koparde 2014) though there is a single sighting along the coast from Andhra Pradesh (Manakandan & Srinivasulu 2006)
We present a photographic record of the Rustyspotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus in a revegetated tract of land 10km north of Puducherry along the coast of Tamil Nadu
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