User:Jts1882/phylogeny/Felidae

This page will be used for developing the Felidae cladogram.

Cladogram with newick trees for lineages
Molecular phylogenetic analysis suggests that living (extant) felids fall into eight lineages (clades). In 2006, Johnson et al. presented the following cladogram (the genera shown are those included in the analysis):

The placement of the cheetah within the Puma lineage invalidates the traditional subfamily Acinonychinae, and recent sources use only two subfamilies for extant genera. The eight lineages divide between these as follows:


 * Subfamily Pantherinae:
 * Lineage 1 (Panthera lineage): Panthera, Neofelis
 * Subfamily Felinae:
 * Lineage 2 (Bay cat lineage): Pardofelis, Catopuma
 * Lineage 3 (Caracal lineage): Leptailurus, Caracal (including Profelis)
 * Lineage 4 (Ocelot cat lineage): Leopardus
 * Lineage 5 (Lynx lineage): Lynx
 * Lineage 6 (Puma lineage): Puma, Acinonyx
 * Lineage 7 (Leopard cat lineage): Prionailurus, Otocolobus
 * Lineage 8 (Domestic cat lineage): Felis

The last four lineages are more related to each other than to any of the first four, so form a clade within the Felinae subfamily of family Felidae.

Modular version
The phylogenetic relationships of living felids are shown in the following cladogram: 

Cladogram with extinct species
This is based on the above molecular cladogram with addition extinct species as illustrated by a figure on the Goswamu lab website.

Machairodontinae (Wallace & Hulbert, 2013)

 * Add to a new phylogeny section in Rhizosmilodon

Phylogenetic relationships of Rhizosmilodon with other Machairodonts based on analysis of 37 cranio-mandibular characters.

Extinct and extant cats (Piras et al., 2013)

 * Added to Sabertoothed cats article.

Based on Piras et al. (2013) and the supplementary material in the Dryad data repository.

Evolution of cats summary:

 * TODO Add to Pseudaelurus article with explanatory section on evolution of three cat lineages.

Taxonomy of †Pseudaelurus 1858 after Werdelin et al (2010).


 * Pseudaelurus (Gervais 1850, type species P. quadridentatus),
 * Schizailurus (Viret 1951, type species P. lorteti),
 * Schizailurus is an objective junior synonym of Miopanthera Kretzoi (1938) (based on the same type species),
 * Miopanthera is a subjective junior synonym of Styriofelis Kretzoi (1929a ; type species F. turnauensis).
 * Hyperailurictis (Kretzoi 1929b, type species P. intrepidus).


 * Rothwell (2003) - relationships of North American Pseudaelurus

Misc and temp

 * Leopard subspecies added to Leopard article (further modifications made there)