Neofelis nebulosa ssp. brachyurus (Formosan Clouded Leopard)

[Melanie]

Another article on the allegedly sighting

news.mongabay.com/2019/03/taiwan-extinct-leopard-subspecies-allegedly-seen-by-rangers/

[surroundx]

"The distinctiveness of N. n. brachyura was also not supported by Kitchener et al. (2006) or by analysis of the short mtDNA fragment of Buckley-Beason et al. (2006). In addition Kitchener et al. (2006) pointed out that the original diagnosis of brachyura was made on the basis of a shorter tail, which is an unreliable characteristic (Pocock 1939, Kuroda 1940), especially as the holotype was a traded specimen with an incomplete tail (Kitchener et al. 2006)."

Source:

Kitchener, A.C., Breitenmoser-Wursten, Ch., 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, Meijaar, P., Sanderson, J., Seymour, K., Bruford, M., Groves, C., Hoffmann, M., Nowell, K., Timmons, Z., Tobe, S. (2017). A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11: 1-80.

[Bhagatí]

Source:
100+ Notable Animals That Went Extinct In Well Recorded History
6:14

[surroundx]

Greenspan, Evan et al. (2020). Evaluating Support for Clouded Leopard Reintroduction in Taiwan: Insights from Surveys of Indigenous and Urban Communities. Human Ecology 48: 733-747. [Abstract]

[Sebbe]

This article includes a photograph of a captive Formosan clouded leopard taken in 1932.

In search of Taiwan’s lost clouded leopards, anthropology uncovers more than camera traps.

news.mongabay.com/2021/11/in-search-of-taiwans-lost-clouded-leopards-anthropology-uncovers-more-than-camera-traps-commentary/