🐈Fishing cat
De vissende kat, viskat of taraikat (Prionailurus viverrinus) is een wilde katachtige uit Zuidoost-Azië en India. Het is samen met de platkopkat (Prionailurus planiceps) de enige katachtige die een belangrijk deel van zijn voedsel in het water vindt. Door de korte poten, het lange lijf en de gevlekte vacht wordt de vissende kat soms vergeleken met de civetkatten. Daaraan heeft de soort ook zijn soortaanduiding viverrinus, wat civetkat betekent, te danken.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- Body mass
- 11 kg
- Body length
- 0.82 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 17 years
Everything we know about the Fishing cat
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass11 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 11 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.82 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass48 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan17 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 17 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length6 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation71 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 72 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelCarnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l11 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Fishing cat yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyFelidae
- ›genusPrionailurus
- ›speciesPrionailurus viverrinus
- 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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