OMIA:002280-61388 : Coat colour, albinism, generic in Prionailurus viverrinus (fishing cat)

In other species: grass carp , rainbow trout , axolotl , African clawed frog , grivet , Bornean orangutan , dog , American black bear , brown bear , raccoon , Sumatran tiger , hippopotamus , American bison , banteng , taurine cattle , sheep , hares , golden hamster , North American deer mouse , meadow voles , bush rat , Australian dusky field rat , long-haired rat , nutria , gray short-tailed opossum , northern pocket gopher , giant uromys , Arizona pocket mouse , rufous rat-kangaroo , turkey vulture , eastern chipmunk , Campbell's desert hamster , Bennett's wallaby , Golden-bellied Water Rat , western chorus frog , brown desert mouse , Ash-gray Pseudomys , Heath Pseudomys

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown

Considered a defect: no

Cross-species summary: Congenital lack of pigment in all parts of the body. See also Skin colour, albinism, generic

History: Giordano et al. (2013) reported "an adult albino fishing cat believed to have been captured in the Hail Haor region of Sylhet Division, Bangladesh".

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2021). OMIA:002280-61388: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

Reference

2013 Giordano, A.J., Ali Reza, A.H.M., Feeroz, M.M. :
Albinism in the fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) from the Haor Basin of Bangladesh CATnews 58:37-38, 2013.

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