Seychellois Neuvieme is white with colored tail and head splashes (classic Turkish Van pattern).The Van pattern is known to animal geneticists as the Seychelles (Seychellois) pattern and is classified into three variants: The term Van pattern comes from the Turkish Van (named after Lake Van), which is a Van-patterned bicolor breed. The presence of multiple, conjoined, or larger spots on the body and/or an extended head spot that reaches the face indicates the harlequin pattern. They may have small (roughly coin sized) colored spots on and around their spine. Van-patterned cats are bicolor cats, that are mostly white (generally more than 75% white), with color around the ears, separated by a white blaze, and on the tail. Van pattern Van-patterned red tabby-and-white Turkish Van cat There are also several patterns with their own names. Bicolor pattern chartīicoloration in cats is graded from one to ten with one being completely colored, and ten being completely white. ( June 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īicolor grade chart, ranging from 1 (solid colored) to 10 (solid white). Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. The Abyssinian has agouti (ticked tabby) fur, giving the appearance of even color with color-banded hairs. In contrast, tabby cats have an agouti gene that produces striping of the coat. Mostly-solid-color bicolor cats occur because there is a white spotting gene present along with a recessive allele of the agouti gene, which evens out the usual striped pattern of the colors of the coat. There are many patterns between, such as "cap-and-saddle", "mask-and-mantle" and "harlequin" (also known as " magpie"). High-grade bicolor results in Van-patterned cats, which is typical for the Turkish Van breed. Where there is low-to-medium grade white spotting limited to the face, paws, throat and chest of an otherwise black cat, they are known in the United States as a tuxedo cat. Bicolor coats are found in many cat breeds, as well as being common in domestic longhair and domestic shorthair cats. These range from the Van-patterned (color on the crown of the head and the tail only) through to solid color with a throat locket or medallion. There are various patterns of bicolor cat.
Socks was a bicolor cat with low-grade spotting, or tuxedo cat.Ī bicolor cat or -and-white cat is a cat with white fur combined with fur of some other color, for example solid black, tabby, or colorpointed. Chelsea Clinton's cat Socks (1989–2009) lived in the White House from 1993 to 2001.
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