Talk:African golden cat

Picture?
This article needs a picture not under copyright protection. One taken at a zoo would be fine. Any takers? Seduisant (talk) 23:40, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Which zoos have any?

In the wild photos
Apparantely only photographed twice in the wild:. 75.41.110.200 (talk) 17:36, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Aberdare
The article on the Aberdare Range says that the African Golden Cat occurs in Kenya. This is in the map, which also has it in Tanganyika, of places near-by. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.66.120 (talk) 12:21, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Subspecies
The subspecies do not agree entierly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.94.216 (talk) 12:40, 13 April 2011 (UTC) The species is called Felis auratus, Caracal aurata and Profelis aurata. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.139.116.7 (talk) 12:49, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Genus Profelis
Since the Wiki standard for Mammal taxonomy is the MSW3, its entry on this cat still identifies it as Profelis aurata. Until MSW revises its entry, Profelis it is. --Seduisant (talk) 02:43, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I didn't make the edit myself, but I can good grounds for changing it. So far as I can tell, this is one of those instances where MSW3 is fairly conclusively known to be wrong (cite 3 in the article) - it is, after all, a little old now, bearing in mind recent advances in molecular phylogeny. I can see the argument for consistently using a single source, but why do we have to continue doing so even when that source is known to be incorrect? Even if we have to keep it as is, I would rather the last sentence of the first paragraph be changed to something like "an older, but still widely used, classification, places it as..." since this would be a more accurate statement. Anaxial (talk) 07:43, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Species name depends on genus gender
According to the ICZN, the name of a species (if it is an adjective) must match the gender of the genus.
 * Profelis* is feminine (because Latin *felis* is feminine), hence, *Profelis aurata* is correct if the species is assigned to *Profelis*.
 * Caracal* is Turkish, not Latin or Greek, but it generally seems to be construed as masculine. Thus, if this species is assigned to the genus *Caracal*, the correct species name is *Caracal auratus*. N. Pharris (talk) 23:28, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * So what? – BhagyaMani (talk) 07:53, 23 December 2021 (UTC)