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Caracal caracal

Caracal caracal

Aavikkoilves(+68)·(Schreber, 1776)

GBIF:299464638

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PROFILE

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GEOGRAPHY

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REGIONS

Geographic Distribution(3)

Africa
Europe & Northern Asia (excluding China)
Southern Asia

DATA

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 37 languages.

finAavikkoilvesfinengAfrican CaracalengengAfrican LynxengaraAnaq al ardharaengAsian Caracaleng+64 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 37 languages.

finAavikkoilves
fin
engAfrican Caracal
eng
engAfrican Lynx
eng
araAnaq al ardh
ara
engAsian Caracal
eng
spaCaracal
spa
engCaracal
eng
fraCaracal
fra
engCaracal Cat
eng
engCaracal Lynx
eng
spaCaracal o Lince caracal
spa
engDesert Lynx
eng
engGazelle Cat
eng
Indabushe
ssw
Ingqawa
xho
Inthwana
xho
deuKaracal
deu
deuKarakal
deu
Karakal / Каракал
litKarakalas
lit
Karakalo
epo
turKarakulak
tur
Limange la daka
ven
itaLince del deserto
ita
fraLynx du désert
fra
Nandzana
tso
Ndabushe
zul
engRed Cat
eng
engRed Lynx
eng
afrRooikat
afr
slkRys karakal
slk
ronRâs al stepelor
ron
ronRâs de deșert
ron
ronRâs de pustiu
ron
Thwane
tsn
araWasheq
ara
deuWüstenluchs
deu
hwang
sna
insimbaluthi
xho
iwoye
yor
polkarakal stepowy
pol
finkarakali
fin
hunkarakál
hun
spalince africano
spa
swamauaji
swa
thwani
ven
twana
sna
nobØrkengaupe
nob
ellΚαρακάλ
ell
rusКаракал
rus
Каракалъ
chu
kazҚарақұлақ
kaz
hebקרקל
heb
hebקרקל מצוי
heb
araعناق الأرض
ara
araقرقول
ara
araكراكال
ara
araوشق الإفريقي
ara
araوشق الصحراوي
ara
araوشق الفارسي
ara
araوشق المصري
ara
hinस्याहगोश
hin
હેણોતરો
guj
tamகறகால் பூனை
tam
thaคาราคัล
tha
thaแมวคาราคัล
tha
jpnカラカル
jpn
zho獰貓
zho
kor카라칼
kor

CLASSIFICATION

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Source Information

Catalogue of Life

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299464638
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2435010
Taxon ID
QZRR
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026