Felidae (novel) Felidae (novel) Felidae is a 1989 crime fiction novel by the German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat named Francis who investigates the murders of several cats in a big city in Germany. , there are eight books in the "Felidae" series: "Felidae", "Felidae II" (also known as "Felidae on the Road" or, in the original German version, "Francis"), "Cave Canem", "Das Duell", "Salve Roma!", "Schandtat", "Felipolis" and "Göttergleich", of which only "Felidae", "Felidae II", and "Felidae V: Salve Roma!" have been translated into English. Although being primarily a work of crime fiction, the "Felidae" series discuss
Felidae based on phenotypical features: the Felinae, the Pantherinae, the Acinonychinae (cheetahs), the extinct Machairodontinae, and the extinct Proailurinae. Molecular phylogenetic analysis suggests that living (extant) felids fall into eight lineages (clades). The placement of the cheetah within the Puma lineage invalidates the traditional subfamily Acinonychinae, and recent sources use only two subfamilies for extant genera. The eight lineages divide between these as follows: The last four lineages are more related to each other than to any of the first four, so form a clade within the subfamily Felinae of family Felidae. The following is the complete list of genera within