🐈Flat-headed cat
Die Flachkopfkatze (Prionailurus planiceps) ist eine gestaltlich ziemlich abweichende wilde Katze Südostasiens, die nahe mit der Bengalkatze verwandt ist. Wegen ihrer Eigenheiten wurde sie gelegentlich einer eigenen Gattung Ictailurus zugeordnet. Die Flachkopfkatze galt seit 1985 als ausgestorben, wurde aber in den 1990er Jahren wiederentdeckt. Auch 2025 wurde ein Exemplar in Thailand beobachtet. Der Bestand wird aber weiterhin nur auf wenige tausend Tiere geschätzt, deren Verbreitungsgebiet obendrein stark zersplittert ist. Aufgrund des stetigen Rückgangs ihres Lebensraums wird befürchtet, dass die Zahl der Flachkopfkatzen weiter zurückgehen wird.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- Body mass
- 5.14 kg
- Body length
- 0.48 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 14 years
Everything we know about the Flat-headed cat
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass5.14 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 6.75 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.48 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass23 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan14 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 14 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length6 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation56 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 56 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2estimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l5.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Flat-headed cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyFelidae
- ›genusPrionailurus
- ›speciesPrionailurus planiceps
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyFelidae
- genusPrionailurus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- familyFelidae
- genusPrionailurus
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