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| Guptha, M.B.; Ramanujam, M.E. | |
| A photographic record of the rusty-spotted cat _Prionailurus rubiginosus_ (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) in a forest plantation on the east coast of Tamil Nadu, India | |
| 2017 Journal of Threatened Taxa (9): 10242-10245 | |
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1831) mentions the type locality of the Rusty-spotted Cat _Prionailurus rubiginosus_ as Pondicherry ("bois de lataniers qui couvertune hauteur voisine de Pondicherry") and this finding was corroborated by Pocock (1939) and at the time of writing there were three skins in the British Museum - from Madras (now Chennai, on the East Coast), Nellore and Khandala. After that the species has been sighted over most of the Indian subcontinent (e.g., Mali & Srinivasulu 2015) but uniquely there have been no recent records of the species from coastal Tamil Nadu-Puducherry area. 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). Here we present a photographic record of the Rusty-spotted Cat Prionailurus rubiginosus in a revegetated tract of land 10 km north of Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry) along the coast of Tamil Nadu |
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