List of cat breeds

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Domestic cats have been diversified by humans into breeds and domestic and wild hybrids. Many such breeds recognized by various cat registries. Additionally, there are new and experimental breeds, landraces being established as standardized breeds, distinct domestic populations not being actively developed and lapsed (extinct) breeds.

As of 2023, The International Cat Association (TICA) recognizes 73 standardized breeds,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) recognizes 45,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Fédération Internationale Féline (FIFe) recognizes 50,<ref name="fife list of breeds">Template:Cite web</ref> the Governing Council of the Cat Fancy (GCCF) recognizes 45,<ref name="gccf breeds registered 2022">Template:Cite web</ref> and the World Cat Federation (WCF) recognizes 69.<ref name="wcf breeds recognized">Template:Cite web</ref>

Inconsistency in a breed's classification and naming among registries means that an individual animal may be considered different breeds by different registries (though not necessarily eligible for registry in them all, depending on its exact ancestry). For example, TICA's Himalayan is considered a colorpoint variety of the Persian by the CFA, while the Javanese (or Colorpoint Longhair) is a color variation of the Balinese in both the TICA and the CFA; both breeds are merged (along with the Colorpoint Shorthair) into a single "mega-breed", the Colourpoint, by the World Cat Federation (WCF), who have repurposed the name "Javanese" for the Oriental Longhair. Also, "Colourpoint Longhair" refers to different breeds in other registries. There are many examples of nomenclatural overlap and differences of this sort. Furthermore, many geographical and cultural names for cat breeds are fanciful selections made by Western breeders to be exotic sounding and bear no relationship to the actual origin of the breeds;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> the Balinese, Javanese, and Himalayan are all examples of this trend.

The domestic short-haired and domestic long-haired cat types are not breeds, but terms used (with various spellings) in the cat fancy to describe "mongrel" or "bicolor" cats by coat length, ones that do not belong to a particular breed. Some registries such as the Cat Fanciers' Association allow for domestic short hairs and domestic long hairs to be registered for the purpose of outcrossing.<ref name="CFA Moggy">Template:Cite web</ref> They should not be confused with standardized breeds with similar names, such as the British Shorthair and Oriental Longhair.

Breeds

Breed	Location of origin	Type	Body type	Coat type and length	Coat pattern	Image
Abyssinian<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Unspecified, but somewhere in Afro-Asia, likely Ethiopia<ref name="Abyssinian Profile">"Abyssinian Profile", Catz Inc.. Retrieved 4 October 2009</ref>	Natural	Semi-foreign	Short	Ticked tabby	Abyssinian
Aegean	Greece	Natural	Moderate	Semi-long	Multi-color	Aegean
American Bobtail<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	United States<ref name="Paragon">Template:Cite book This is a four-volume work, but all entries are alphabetical by breed, so volume and page number citations are superfluous.</ref>	Mutation of shortened tail	Cobby	Semi-long	All	American Bobtail
American Curl<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation	Semi-foreign	Semi-long	All	American Curl
American Ringtail	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation	Foreign	Semi-long	All	American Ringtail
American Shorthair	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Cobby	Short	All	American Shorthair
American Wirehair	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation	Normal	Rex	All	American Wirehair
Aphrodite Giant	Cyprus	Natural	Lean and muscular	All	All	Aphrodite Giant
Arabian Mau	Arabian Peninsula	Natural	Moderate and muscular	Short	All	Arabian Mau
Asian	United Kingdom	Crossbreed between the Burmese and Chinchilla Persians	Moderate	Short	All without white and without siamese pointing	Asian
Asian Semi-longhair	United Kingdom	Crossbreed between the Burmese and Chinchilla Persians	Moderate	Semi-long	All without white and without siamese pointing	Asian Semi-longhair
Australian Mist	Australia<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014">Template:Cite book</ref>	Crossbreed between the Abyssinian, Burmese, and Australian short-haired cats<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Moderate	Short	Spotted or marbled	Australian Mist
Balinese	Developed in United States;<ref name="Paragon" /> foundation stock from Thailand	Mutation of the Siamese	Semi-foreign	Long	Colorpoint	Balinese
Bambino	United States<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Crossbreed between the Munchkin and Sphynx<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Dwarf	Short	Black + white hairless
Bengal	Developed in United States,<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" /> but created in Asia	Hybrid of the Abyssinian and Egyptian Mau × leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)	Large	Short	Spotted, marbled, or rosetted	File:Paintedcats Red Star standing.jpg
Birman	Developed in France; foundation stock from Burma (Myanmar)<ref name="Paragon" />	The original Birman was crossed with the Siamese and the Persian to create the Birman of today.	Cobby	Semi-long	Mitted colorpoint	Birman
Bombay	United States and Burma (Myanmar)	Crossbreed between the Black American Shorthair and Sable Burmese	Cobby	Short	Solid black	Bombay
Brazilian Shorthair	Brazil	Natural	Normal	Short	All	Brazilian Shorthair
British Longhair	United Kingdom (England)<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Cobby	Semi-long	All	British Semi-longhair
British Shorthair	United Kingdom (England)<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Cobby	Short	All<ref name="GCCF BSH standard">Template:Cite web</ref>	British Shorthair
Burmese	Burma (Myanmar)<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Semi-foreign or semi-cobby	Short	Solid and Tortoiseshell<ref name="TICA Burmese breed introduction">Template:Cite web</ref>	Burmese
Burmilla	United Kingdom (England)<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the Burmese and the Chinchilla Persian	Semi-cobby	Short	Solid with Shaded Silver and Silver Tipped patterns	Burmilla
California Spangled	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the Abyssinian, American Shorthair and British Shorthair	Moderate	Short	Spotted tabby	California Spangled
Chantilly-Tiffany	United States	Natural	Cobby	Long	Solid, classic tabby, spotted tabby and ticked tabby	Chantilly-Tiffany
Chartreux	France<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Muscular; cobby	Short	Varying shades of blue	Chartreux
Chausie	United States	Hybrid of the Abyssinian × jungle cat (Felis chaus)	Normal	Short	Solid black, black grizzled tabby and black ticked tabby	Chausie
Colorpoint Shorthair	United Kingdom (England)	Crossbreed between the Abyssinian, Siamese and short-haired cats	Foreign	Short	Colorpoint	Colorpoint Shorthair
Cornish Rex	Cornwall, England, United Kingdom	Mutation	Foreign	Rex	All	Cornish Rex
Cymric, Manx Longhair or Long-haired ManxTemplate:Efn	Isle of Man, United States, and CanadaTemplate:Efn<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation of the Manx (shortened tail)	Semi-cobby	Long	All	Cymric
Cyprus	Cyprus	Natural	Lean and muscular	All	All	Cyprus
Devon Rex	Buckfastleigh, Devon, England, United Kingdom	Mutation	Semi-foreign	Rex	All	Devon Rex
Donskoy or Don Sphynx	Russia	Mutation	Semi-foreign	Hairless	Solid	Donskoy or Don Sphynx
Dragon Li or Chinese Li Hua	China	Natural	Normal	Short	Ticked tabby
Dwelf	United States	Crossbreed between the American Curl, Munchkin and Sphynx	Dwarf	Hairless	All
Egyptian Mau	Egypt<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Moderate and muscular	Short	Spotted tabby	Egyptian Mau
European Shorthair	Continental Europe<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Moderate	Short	All	European Shorthair
Exotic Shorthair	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the American Shorthair and Persian	Cobby	Short	All	Exotic Shorthair
Foldex<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Canada	Crossbreed between the Exotic Shorthair and Scottish Fold	Cobby	Short	All	Foldex
German Rex	Germany<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation	Semi-foreign	Rex	All	German Rex
Havana Brown	United Kingdom (England); foundation stock from Thailand	Crossbreed between the Siamese and black short-haired cats	Semi-foreign	Short	Solid brown	Havana Brown
Highlander	United States	Crossbreed between the Desert Lynx and Jungle Curl	Moderate	Short/long	All	Highlander
Himalayan or Colorpoint PersianTemplate:Efn	United States and United Kingdom<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the Persian and Siamese	Cobby	Long	Colorpoint	Himalayan or Colorpoint Persian
Japanese Bobtail	JapanTemplate:Efn<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation of shortened tail	Moderate	Short/long	All	Japanese Bobtail
Javanese or Colorpoint LonghairTemplate:Efn	Developed in United States<ref name="Paragon" /> and Canada; foundation stock from Southeast Asia	Crossbreed between the Balinese (with some Colorpoint Shorthair), Oriental Longhair and Siamese	Oriental	Long	Colorpoint	Javanese or Colorpoint Longhair
Kanaani	Israel<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Hybrid of short-haired cats × African wildcat (Felis lybica)	Semi-foreign	Short	Solid black, chocolate spotted tabby or cinnamon spotted tabby
Karelian Bobtail	Ladoga Karelia, Russia<ref name="Karelian Bobtail zoomir">Template:Cite web</ref>	Natural, mutation of shortened tail<ref name="Kaži">Template:Cite web</ref>	Medium<ref name="Karelian Bobtail Shorthair">Template:Cite web</ref>	Short/long<ref name="Karelian Bobtail Longhair">Template:Cite web</ref>	All, except pointed
Khao Manee	Thailand<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Natural	Moderate	Short	Solid white	Khao Manee
Kinkalow	United States	Crossbreed between the Munchkin and American Curl	Dwarf	Short	All	Kinkalow
Korat	Thailand<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Semi-foreign or semi-cobby and muscular	Short	Solid blue	Korat
Korean Bobtail	Korea	Natural, mutation of shortened tail	Moderate	Short/long	All	File:Japanese Bobtail walking.JPG
Korn Ja or Konja Template:Citation needed	Thailand	Natural	Small	Short	Solid black
Kurilian Bobtail or Kuril Islands Bobtail	Kuril Islands, North Pacific<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Natural, mutation of shortened tail	Semi-cobby	Short/long<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	All	Kurilian Bobtail or Kuril Islands Bobtail
Lambkin	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the Munchkin and Selkirk Rex	Dwarf	Rex	All
LaPerm	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation	Moderate	Rex	All	LaPerm
Lykoi	United States	Mutation	Moderate	Sparse haired	Black roan	Lykoi
Maine Coon	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural, crossbreed	Large	Semi-long/long	All excluding chocolate and colourpoint	Maine Coon
Manx	Isle of Man<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation of shortened tail	Moderate	Short/long	All	Manx
Mekong Bobtail	Developed in Russia; foundation stock ultimately from Southeast Asia<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Mutation of shortened tail	Moderate	Short	Colorpoint	Mekong Bobtail
Minskin	United States<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Crossbreed between the Munchkin, Burmese, Devon Rex, and Sphynx	Dwarf	Hairless	All	Minskin
Minuet	United States	Crossbreed between the Persian and Munchkin	Dwarf	Short/long	All	Minuet
Munchkin	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation of dwarf cat	Dwarf	Short/long	All	Munchkin
Nebelung	United States<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Natural, mutation	Foreign	Semi-long	Solid blue	Nebelung
Neva Masquerade (colorpoint Siberian)Template:Efn	Russia<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Crossbreed between the Siberian and a colorpoint cat<ref>Template:Cite book This is a revised one-volume edition, and was only available through RC retailers.</ref>	Cobby<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Long<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Colorpoint	Neva Masquerade
Norwegian Forest cat	Norway<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Cobby	Long	Chocolate or orange and white bicolor	Norwegian Forest Cat
Ocicat	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the Abyssinian, American Shorthair and Siamese	Large	Short	Spotted tabby	Ocicat
Ojos Azules (extinct)	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed	Moderate	Short	All	Ojos Azules
Oriental Bicolor	Developed in United States and United Kingdom, later in Continental Europe; foundation stock ultimately from Thailand	Color variety of the Oriental Shorthair	Oriental	Short	Bicolor	Oriental Bicolor
Oriental Longhair Template:Efn	Developed in United States and United Kingdom; foundation stock ultimately from Thailand<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the Oriental Shorthair and long-haired cats	Oriental	Semi-long	All; if colorpoint is considered to be a separate breed, it is called the Javanese	Oriental Longhair
Oriental Shorthair Template:Efn	Developed in United States and United Kingdom; foundation stock ultimately from Thailand<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the European Shorthair and Siamese	Oriental	Short	All	Oriental Shorthair
Persian (modern)	Developed in United States and Europe; foundation stock from Greater Iran<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation of the Traditional Persian	Cobby	Long	All but colorpoint	Persian, modern
Persian (traditional)	Greater Iran<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural, but some crossbreeding with the Turkish Angora	Cobby	Long	All but colorpoint	Traditional Persian
Peterbald	Russia	Crossbreed between the Donskoy, Oriental Shorthair and Siamese; before this, it was between the Balinese and Javanese	Oriental	Hairless, velour, brush, or straight coat	All	Peterbald
Pixie-bob	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation (falsely claimed to be a hybrid of the domestic cat and the bobcat (Lynx rufus) early on)	Medium	Short	Spotted tabby	Pixie-bob
Ragamuffin or Liebling (obsolete)	United States	Crossbreed between the Ragdoll with limited out-crossing to the Himalayan, the Persian, and other long-haired cats	Cobby	Long	All	Ragamuffin
Ragdoll	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Behavioral mutation in a crossbreed, presumed to be between the Persian or Turkish Angora and the Birman or Burmese	Cobby	Long	Colorpoint, mitted, or bicolor	Ragdoll
Raas	Raas Island, Indonesia	Natural	Moderate	Short	Solid blue, solid cinnamon, or cinnamon colorpoint	Raas
Russian Blue	Russia<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Moderate, Oriental	Short	Solid blue	Russian Blue
Russian White, Russian Black and Russian Tabby	Developed in Australia; foundation stock from Russia	Crossbreeds between the Russian Blue and short-haired cats from Siberia, Russia	Moderate	Short	Solid white, solid black and tabby
Sam Sawet	Thailand	Color variety of the Thai	Moderate	Short	Solid
Savannah	United States<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Hybrid of the domestic cat x serval (Leptailurus serval)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	Large	Short	Spotted	Savannah
Scottish Fold	United Kingdom (Scotland)<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation of the bones and cartilage of the ears	Cobby	Short/long	All	Lilac-coated Scottish Fold
Selkirk Rex	United States in 1988<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation/crossbreed between the American Shorthair, Persian, Himalayan, Exotic Shorthair and British Shorthair	Large and cobby	Short/long (longhair, sometimes in early generations, can appear to be semi-long)	All	Selkirk Rex
Serengeti	United States	Crossbreed/hybrid between the Bengal and Oriental Shorthair	Oriental	Short	Spotted	Serengeti
Siamese (modern) Template:Crossreference)	Developed in United States and Europe; foundation stock from Thailand<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation of the Thai	Oriental	Short	Colorpoint	Siamese
Siberian or Siberian Forest Cat Template:Crossreference)	Siberian Tundra, Russia.	Natural	Cobby<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Long<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	All; except chocolate, lilac, cinnamon, and fawn<ref name="FIFE Neva Siberian" />	Siberian
Singapura	Developed in United States; foundation stock from Singapore<ref name="Paragon" />	Possibly a mutation of a crossbreed (excluding the Munchkin), solving why they are so small	Small	Short	Ticked tabby	Singapura
Snowshoe	United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the American Shorthair and Siamese	Moderate	Short	Mitted colorpoint	Snowshoe
Sokoke	Kenya<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Natural	Moderate	Short	Ticked tabby	Sokoke
Somali	United States, Canada	Mutation	Cobby	Long	Ticked tabby	Somali
Sphynx	Canada, Europe<ref name="Paragon" />	Mutation	Oriental	Hairless	All	Sphynx
Suphalak	Thailand	Natural	Moderate	Short	Solid reddish-brown	Suphalak
Thai or Traditional, Classic, or Old-style Siamese; Wichien MaatTemplate:Efn	Developed in Europe;<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" /> foundation stock from Thailand<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Moderate	Short	Colorpoint	Thai
Thai Lilac, Thai Blue Point and Thai Lilac Point	Thailand	Color varieties of the Korat	Moderate	Short	Solid lilac and colorpoint (blue point and lilac point only)	Thai Lilac
Tonkinese	Canada, United States<ref name="Paragon" />	Crossbreed between the Burmese and Siamese	Oriental	Short	Colorpoint, mink, or solid	Tonkinese
Toybob	Russia	Mutation	Dwarf	Short	All
Toyger	United States<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Crossbreed/hybrid between the Bengal and short-haired cats	Moderate	Short	Mackerel tabby	Toyger
Turkish Angora	Turkey<ref name="Paragon" />	Natural	Semi-cobby	Semi-long	All	Turkish Angora
Turkish Van Template:Efn	Developed in United Kingdom; foundation stock from Turkey<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Natural	Semi-cobby	Semi-long	Van pattern	Turkish Van
Turkish Vankedisi (white variety of Turkish Van)Template:Efn	Developed in United Kingdom; foundation stock from Turkey<ref name="Baggaley, Goddard & John, 2014" />	Natural	Svelte	Long	Solid white	Van cat
Ukrainian Levkoy	Ukraine	Crossbreed between the Donskoy and Scottish Fold	Moderate	Hairless	Solid gray	Ukrainian Levkoy
York Chocolate	New York, United States	Natural	Moderate	Long	Solid chocolate, solid lilac and solid taupe or any of these colors with white	York Chocolate

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