Synonyms

• Catolynx chaus Satunin, 1905: 160, 320
• Chaus Güldenstädt, 1776: 483
• Felis catolynx Pallas, 1811: 23
• Felis chaus Schreber, 1777: CX.B, 414
• Felis chaus chaus Pocock, 1939: 292
• Felis (Chaus) chaus chaus Ognev, 1935
• Felis chaus typica de Winton, 1898: 291
• Felis shawiana Blanford, 1876: 50

Primary references

• Güldenstädt, A.I. 1776. Chaus, animal feli affine descriptum. Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 20: 483–500. BHL Reference page. 

• Allen, J.A. 1920. Note on Gueldenstaedt's names of certain species of Felidae. Journal of Mammalogy 1(2): 90–91. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/1.2.90 BHL Reference page. 

• Schreber, J.C.D. 1774–. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen.
  • Theil 1 Theil 2 Theil 3 Theil 4 Theil 5 Theil 6 Theil 7 Plates Reference page.  CX.B; Theil 3: 414

• Sherborn, C.D. 1891. On the dates of the parts, plates, and text of Schreber's 'Säugthiere'. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 587–592. BHL Reference page.  p. 589 [Plate 110B = 1777]

• Pallas, P.S. 1811. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. Tomus I. Officina Caesareae Academiae Scientiarum: Petropolis [St. Petersburg]. xviii + 572 pp. BnF Gallica Reference page. 

• Blanford, W.T. 1876. Description of Felis shawiana, a new lyncine cat from eastern Turkestan. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 45(2): 49–51. BHL Reference page. 

• de Winton, W.E. 1898. Felis chaus and its allies, with descriptions of new subspecies. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology Ser. 7 Vol. 2: 291–294. DOI: 10.1080/00222939808678046 BHL Reference page. 

• Satunin, K.A. 1905. Новые и малоизвестные млекопитающие Кавказа и Закаспийской области [pp. 45–262]. Neue und wenig bekannte Säugetiere aus dem Kaukasus und aus Transkaspien / Die Säugetiere des Talyschgebietes und der Mugansteppe [pp. 263–394]. Mitteilungen des Kaukasischen Museums 2(1): 45–394. Reference page. 

• Pocock, R.I. 1939. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia I: Primates and Carnivora (in part), families Felidae and Viverridae. PDF Reference page. 

• Pocock, R.I. 1951. Catalogue of the genus Felis. British Museum (Natural History): London. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.128853 BHL Reference page.  pp. 151–154.

Additional references

• Heptner, V.G. & Sludskii, A.A. 1992. Mammals of the Soviet Union. Volume II, Part II: Carnivora (Hyaenas and Cats). Translation of: Mlekopitai͡ushchie Sovetskogo Soi͡uza Vol. II, Pt. II (1972). Amerind: New Delhi. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.46297 BHL Reference page.  pp. 373–375.

• Kitchener, A.C., Breitenmoser-Würsten, 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’Donoghue, 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: 80 pp. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

Links

• Felis chaus chaus in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.