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Cat Genetics Guide: Non-Hybridized Tabby Patterns Chart

Row 1
1) Barred Ticked Tabby (Tata)
2) Unpatterned or Patternless Ticked Tabby (TaTa)
3) Broken Classic Tabby (mcmc, tata)

Row 2
4) Mackerel Tabby (McMc or Mcmc, spsp, tata)
5) Classic Tabby (mcmc, spsp, tata)
6) Mist Marble Tabby (spsp, tata): found in the Australian Mist breed

Row 3
7) Broken Mackerel Tabby (McMc or Mcmc, tata)
8) Mackerel Spotted Tabby (McMc or Mcmc, SpSp or Spsp, tata)
9) Sokoke Tabby (mcmc, spsp, tata): Hollow Blotches, which affects the blotch tabby types; found in the Sokoke breed and the Khadzonzos landrace

Row 4
10) Speckled Tabby: A dribbled tabby pattern type
11) Broken Pinstripe Tabby: A dribbled tabby pattern type
12) Classic Spotted Tabby (mcmc, SpSp or Spsp, tata)

Agouti Locus (A)
A/A: homozygous agouti/tabby
A/a: heterozygous agouti/tabby
a/a: non-agouti/solid/self

Ticked Tabby Locus (Ta): epistatic to spotted, mackerel, and classic tabbies
Ta/Ta: homozygous unpatterned ticked tabby
Ta/ta: heterozygous barred ticked tabby
ta/ta: non-ticked

Spotted Tabby Locus (Sp): epistatic to mackerel and classic tabbies, but hypostatic to ticked tabbies
Sp/Sp: homozygous spotted tabby
Sp/sp: heterozygous spotted tabby
sp/sp: non-spotted tabby

Primary (Stripes vs Blotches) Tabby Locus (Mc): hypostatic to spotted and ticked tabbies
Mc/Mc: homozygous mackerel tabby
Mc/mc: heterozygous mackerel tabby
mc/mc: classic tabby

Not Pictured

Classic Dashed Tabbies (Blotched Tabby Type)
Mackerel Dashed Tabbies (Striped Tabby Type)
Longstripe Tabbies (Striped Tabby Type)
Pinstripe Tabbies (Dribbled Tabby Type)
Long Pinstripe Tabby (Dribbled Tabby Type)
Sprinkled Tabbies (Dribbled Tabby Type)
Unbroken Mackerel Tabby (Striped Tabby Type)
Unbroken Pinstripe Tabby (Dribbled Tabby Type)
Patternless Tabby/Agouti (Ticked Tabby Type)

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Blotched Tabby Types can look like a solid cape or mantle on the cat’s back.

Ticked or Patternless Tabby/Agouti Patten Type Cats, the ones who appear patternless on their backs, can have subtle or breakthrough patterns on their back. Barred ticked tabbies can have either distinct leg and tail patterns or just distinct tail patterns.

Striped, Spotted, and Dribbled tabby types can vary between having very faint back patterns to having patterns on their backs nearly as distinct as that on their leg, face, and tail.

Some European and Scottish wildcats appear to have the usually seen as unrealistic Y Stripe pattern witnessed in the Warriors cats drawings, especially as kittens.

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Wild-Type Patterns by (Wild)cat Subspecies

Silvestris (European, Forest, or Nominate; includes Scottish, Caucasian, and Iberian types)
1) Barred Ticked Tabby: most common on continental ones
2) Unbroken Mackerel Tabby: most commonon Scottish/British ones
3) Mackerel Tabby: most common on Scottish/British ones

Lybica (Near Eastern or Desert; includes domestic and Gordon’s types)
1) Mackerel Tabby
2) Broken Mackerel Tabby
3) Dashed Mackerel Tabby
4) Mackerel Spotted Tabby
5) Barred Ticked Tabby

Cafra (Southern African, Bay, or Bush; includes Kalahari type)
1) Mackerel Tabby
2) Broken Mackerel Tabby
3) Dashed Mackerel Tabby
4) Barred Ticked Tabby: especially common in Kalahari type

Ornata (Central Asian, Asiatic, Indian Steppe, Indian Desert, Steppe)
1) Mackerel Spotted Tabby: by far most common
2) Dashed Mackerel Tabby
3) Barred Ticked Tabby

Bieti (Chinese Mountain, Chinese Desert, or Alpine Steppe)
1) Barred Ticked Tabby: by far most common
2) Broken Mackerel Tabby
3) Dashed Mackerel Tabby

Description
Cat Genetics Guide: Non-Hybridized Tabby Patterns Chart

Row 1
1) Barred Ticked Tabby (Tata)
2) Unpatterned or Patternless Ticked Tabby (TaTa)
3) Broken Classic Tabby (mcmc, tata)

Row 2
4) Mackerel Tabby (McMc or Mcmc, spsp, tata)
5) Classic Tabby (mcmc, spsp, tata)
6) Mist Marble Tabby (spsp, tata): found in the Australian Mist breed

Row 3
7) Broken Mackerel Tabby (McMc or Mcmc, tata)
8) Mackerel Spotted Tabby (McMc or Mcmc, SpSp or Spsp, tata)
9) Sokoke Tabby (mcmc, spsp, tata): Hollow Blotches, which affects the blotch tabby types; found in the Sokoke breed and the Khadzonzos landrace

Row 4
10) Speckled Tabby: A dribbled tabby pattern type
11) Broken Pinstripe Tabby: A dribbled tabby pattern type
12) Classic Spotted Tabby (mcmc, SpSp or Spsp, tata)

Agouti Locus (A)
A/A: homozygous agouti/tabby
A/a: heterozygous agouti/tabby
a/a: non-agouti/solid/self

Ticked Tabby Locus (Ta): epistatic to spotted, mackerel, and classic tabbies
Ta/Ta: homozygous unpatterned ticked tabby
Ta/ta: heterozygous barred ticked tabby
ta/ta: non-ticked

Spotted Tabby Locus (Sp): epistatic to mackerel and classic tabbies, but hypostatic to ticked tabbies
Sp/Sp: homozygous spotted tabby
Sp/sp: heterozygous spotted tabby
sp/sp: non-spotted tabby

Primary (Stripes vs Blotches) Tabby Locus (Mc): hypostatic to spotted and ticked tabbies
Mc/Mc: homozygous mackerel tabby
Mc/mc: heterozygous mackerel tabby
mc/mc: classic tabby

Not Pictured

Classic Dashed Tabbies (Blotched Tabby Type)
Mackerel Dashed Tabbies (Striped Tabby Type)
Longstripe Tabbies (Striped Tabby Type)
Pinstripe Tabbies (Dribbled Tabby Type)
Long Pinstripe Tabby (Dribbled Tabby Type)
Sprinkled Tabbies (Dribbled Tabby Type)
Unbroken Mackerel Tabby (Striped Tabby Type)
Unbroken Pinstripe Tabby (Dribbled Tabby Type)
Patternless Tabby/Agouti (Ticked Tabby Type)

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Blotched Tabby Types can look like a solid cape or mantle on the cat’s back.

Ticked or Patternless Tabby/Agouti Patten Type Cats, the ones who appear patternless on their backs, can have subtle or breakthrough patterns on their back. Barred ticked tabbies can have either distinct leg and tail patterns or just distinct tail patterns.

Striped, Spotted, and Dribbled tabby types can vary between having very faint back patterns to having patterns on their backs nearly as distinct as that on their leg, face, and tail.

Some European and Scottish wildcats appear to have the usually seen as unrealistic Y Stripe pattern witnessed in the Warriors cats drawings, especially as kittens.

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Wild-Type Patterns by (Wild)cat Subspecies

Silvestris (European, Forest, or Nominate; includes Scottish, Caucasian, and Iberian types)
1) Barred Ticked Tabby: most common on continental ones
2) Unbroken Mackerel Tabby: most commonon Scottish/British ones
3) Mackerel Tabby: most common on Scottish/British ones

Lybica (Near Eastern or Desert; includes domestic and Gordon’s types)
1) Mackerel Tabby
2) Broken Mackerel Tabby
3) Dashed Mackerel Tabby
4) Mackerel Spotted Tabby
5) Barred Ticked Tabby

Cafra (Southern African, Bay, or Bush; includes Kalahari type)
1) Mackerel Tabby
2) Broken Mackerel Tabby
3) Dashed Mackerel Tabby
4) Barred Ticked Tabby: especially common in Kalahari type

Ornata (Central Asian, Asiatic, Indian Steppe, Indian Desert, Steppe)
1) Mackerel Spotted Tabby: by far most common
2) Dashed Mackerel Tabby
3) Barred Ticked Tabby

Bieti (Chinese Mountain, Chinese Desert, or Alpine Steppe)
1) Barred Ticked Tabby: by far most common
2) Broken Mackerel Tabby
3) Dashed Mackerel Tabby