Cat Marbled Pattern

This is the most common coat type in cats around the world.

Cat marbled pattern.

Sometimes called a tiger cat mackerel tabbies have one solid dark stripe along their spine with more stripes branching off. Marbled bengals also come in all three snow variations the seal sepia the seal mink and the seal lynx point who also have deep blue eyes. The marble bengal cat has four official types reduced horizontal flow horizontal flow chaos pattern and sheet marble patterns. The african wildcat felis lybica lybica the european wildcat felis silvestris silvestris and the asiatic wildcat felis lybica ornata all of which have similar coats both by pattern and coloration.

The color marbling is random. This is when a cat has vertical stripes running from its spine to its belly. Distinct color patterns with one color predominating. This is when there is a swirly pattern creating a marbled effect.

The photo below is of one of our adult marble patterned bengal cats fyi he is forrest s father. Mackerel tabby featured image credit. Although the marble pattern itself is derived from the bengal s domestic ancestors the appearance of the pattern of top bengal marbles needs to be strongly influenced by the wild asian leopard cat s genepool which means the horizontal flow which is especially evident when the cat is stretched. The ideal marble bengal cat has a horizontally flowing random asymmetrical pattern made up of swirls of two or more colors.

The marbled pattern occurs nowhere else in nature. The marbled coat pattern is derived from blotched tabby stripes that swirl. Brown mackeral tabbies are the most common. This pattern resembles the skeleton of a fish hence the name.

And it happens to be the most common of all the feline coat. The tabby pattern occurs naturally and is connected both to the coat of the domestic cat s direct ancestor and to those of their close relatives. Black stripes ranging from coal black to brownish on a background of brown to gray. His name is adore cats lightening.

A classic tabby also known as a blotched tabby. These swirls are usually quite random and resemble a marble cake. A striped tabby also known as a mackerel tabby. People sometimes call the average domestic cat a tabby but tabby is not a cat breed it is actually the pattern of kitty s coat.