Rusty-spotted cat

The rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus) is one of the cat family's smallest members. Historical records are known only from India and Sri Lanka.^[3] In 2012, it was also recorded in the western Terai of Nepal.^[4]

Rusty-spotted cat
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Prionailurus
Species:	P. rubiginosus[2]
Binomial name
Prionailurus rubiginosus[2] (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1834)
Distribution of the Rusty-spotted Cat in 2016[1]

Since 2016, the global wild population is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. It is fragmented and affected by the loss and destruction of its prime habitat, deciduous forest.^[1]