Clockwise from top left: Tiger (Pantheratigris), Canadian lynx (Lynx canadensis), Puma (Puma concolor), Cheetah (Acinonyxjubatus), Wildcat (Felissilvestris), Serval (Leptailurusserval), Caracal (Caracal caracal) and Ocelot (Leoparduspardalis).
Felidae is the biological family of cats. A member of this family is also called a felid. Living cats belong to two subfamilies, the Pantherinae and Felinae. The former comprises the "big cats", including the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopardandsundaclouded.Felinaeincludes all the non-pantherine cats, which range in size from the small rusty-spotted to the big cat-sized puma and includes such diverse forms as the lynx, ocelot, serval and cheetah, as well as the domestic cats. DF: 3/3+1/1+3/2+1/1.
