Living Beings
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Species · Leptailurus
Serval
Leptailurus serval
The serval is a long-legged African cat associated with grassy and wetland-edge habitats. Its proportions support a hunting style focused on detecting …
Classification in context
Lineage
- LifeLife
- DomainEukaryota
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCarnivora
- FamilyFelidae
- GenusLeptailurus
- SpeciesLeptailurus serval
Advanced classification
Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.
- cellular organisms cellular root
- Eukaryota domain
- Opisthokonta clade
- Metazoa kingdom
- Eumetazoa clade
- Bilateria clade
- Deuterostomia clade
- Chordata phylum
- Craniata subphylum
- Vertebrata clade
- Gnathostomata clade
- Teleostomi clade
- Euteleostomi clade
- Sarcopterygii superclass
- Dipnotetrapodomorpha clade
- Tetrapoda clade
- Amniota clade
- Mammalia class
- Theria clade
- Eutheria clade
- Boreoeutheria clade
- Laurasiatheria superorder
- Carnivora order
- Feliformia suborder
- Felidae family
- Felinae subfamily
- Leptailurus genus
- Leptailurus serval species
NCBI Taxonomy (2026-11-05 reconciled backbone) · Taxon source ↗
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Principal members
1 published profile in this branch.
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