Caucasian black cat
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The Caucasian black cat is a population of feral cat, Caucasian wildcat, or a hybrid between the two.
The Caucasian black cat was described in 1837 by Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker, who proposed the trinomial name Felis cato affinis.[1][2] Konstantin Satunin proposed the new name Felis daemon in 1904, assuming that Hohenacker was not proposing a scientific name as the latter's work was written in Latin.[3]
There are three hypotheses as to what the Caucasian black cat's identity actually is:[4]
- This population is a melanistic form of the Caucasian wildcat
- The Caucasian black cat is a feral population of domestic cats
- These cats are a hybrid between the two, similar to the Kellas cat of Scotland
