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iWild Cat
Conservation status
Image:Status iucn3.1 CR.svg Critically endangered (CR) </div>
Scientific classification
Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Felidae Genus: Felis Species: F. silvestris Subspecies: F. s. cretensis
Trinomial name
Felis silvestris cretensis Haltenorth, 1953
Synonyms
Felis silvestris agrius

The Cretan wildcat is a subspecies of European Wild cat that inhabits the Greek island of Crete. It was long thought to have gone extinct, but in 1996 a specimen was captured by an expedition from the University of Perugia.

[edit] See also

• List of extinct mammals
• Wild cat