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| name = Himalayan jungle cat<br />
| image = FelisChausMunsiari1.jpg<br />
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| genus = Felis<br />
| species = chaus<br />
| species_link = Jungle cat<br />
| subspecies = affinis<br />
| authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1830<br />
| synonyms =<br />
*''F. c. prateri'' {{small|Pocock, 1939}}<br />
*''F. c. kutas'' {{small|Pearson, 1832}}<br />
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'''''Felis chaus affinis''''' is a [[jungle cat]] [[subspecies]].<ref name="catsg">{{cite journal |authors=Kitchener, A. C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, C., Eizirik, E., Gentry, A., Werdelin, L., Wilting A., Yamaguchi, N., Abramov, A. V., Christiansen, P., Driscoll, C., Duckworth, J. W., Johnson, W., Luo, S.-J., Meijaard, E., O’Donoghue, P., Sanderson, J., Seymour, K., Bruford, M., Groves, C., Hoffmann, M., Nowell, K., Timmons, Z. & Tobe, S. |year=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 |issue=Special Issue 11 |url=http://www.catsg.org/fileadmin/filesharing/5.Cat_News/5.3._Special_Issues/5.3.10._SI_11/CN_Special_Issue_11_Revised_taxonomy_of_the_Felidae.pdf}}</ref><br />
It was described by British zoologist [[John Edward Gray]] in 1830 based on an illustration by [[Thomas Hardwicke]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Gray |first=J.E.|author-link=John Edward Gray|title=Illustrations of Indian Zoology chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke (Vol. 1)|publisher=Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, jun. and Richter|location=London, UK|year=1830|url=https://archive.org/stream/IllustrationsOfIndianZoology1/Hardwicke1#page/n18/mode/1up}}</ref><br />
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==Taxonomy==<br />
Thomas Hardwicke's collection of illustrations of Indian wildlife comprises the first drawing of a Himalayan jungle cat, which the British zoologist John Edward Gray named the "Allied cat" ''Felis affinis'' in 1830.<ref>Gray, J. E. (1830-1832). [https://archive.org/stream/IllustrationsOfIndianZoology1/Hardwicke1#page/n18/mode/1up ''Illustrations of Indian Zoology; chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke. Vol. 1''.] Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, jun. and Richter, London, Paris, Strasbourg.</ref><br />
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In the 19th century, several jungle cat specimens from [[India]] were proposed as subspecies:<br />
*In 1832, a stuffed cat was presented at a meeting of the [[Asiatic Society of Bengal]] that had been caught in the jungles of [[Midnapore]] in [[West Bengal]]. Pearson who donated the specimen described it as different in colour from ''Felis chaus'' and proposed the name ''Felis kutas''.<ref>Pearson, J. T. (1832) [https://archive.org/stream/journalofasiatic01asia#page/74/mode/2up ''A stuffed specimen of a species of Felis, native of the Midnapure jungles''.] The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Vol. I: 75.</ref><br />
*In 1852, the Ceylonese naturalist [[Edward Frederick Kelaart]] described the first ''Felis chaus'' skin from northern [[Sri Lanka]] and emphasised its close resemblance to a "swamp lynx".<ref>Kelaart, E. F. (1852). [https://archive.org/stream/prodromusfaunze00layagoog#page/n100/mode/1up ''Prodromus Faunæ Zeylanicæ: Being Contributions to the Zoology of Ceylon''.] Printed for the author, Colombo.</ref><br />
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In the 1930s, Pocock reviewed the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]]'s jungle cat skins and skulls from [[British India]] and adjacent countries. Based mainly on differences in fur length and colour he grouped six larger skins from [[Sind Province (1936–1955)|Sind]] under the name ''Felis chaus prateri''. He subordinated the specimens from [[Sri Lanka]] and southern [[India]] under ''Felis chaus kelaarti'', but those from northern India and the Himalayas to ''Felis chaus affinis''.<ref name= Pocock1939>{{cite book |author=Pocock, R. I. |year=1939 |chapter=''Felis chaus'' Güldenstädt |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/PocockMammalia1/pocock1#page/n365/mode/2up |title=The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. – Volume 1 |publisher=Taylor and Francis Ltd. |location=London |pages=290–305}}</ref><br />
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Since 2017, all three names are considered synonymous with ''F. c. affinis''.<ref name=catsg/><br />
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