[5] In February 1929, M. Rey-Jouvin collected the skin and skull of a female wildcat from the Aunes forest at the border of the Étang de Biguglia.

In that same year, it was examined and described by Louis Lavauden, who named it the holotype of the new species Felis reyi, the Corsican wildcat.

[6] It was provisionally suggested to be a synonym of Felis lybica sarda by Reginald Innes Pocock who reviewed Felis skins in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London, but he admitted to not being able to review any specimens from Corsica himself, and based his suggestion off of Lavauden's description.

[7] Following zooarchaeological research in Corsica, it was regarded to have been introduced to the island during the Roman Empire, likely originating from domestic cat stock.

[11] The Corsican wildcat features in the local shepherds' folklore as forest cats who would attack the udders of their ewes and goats.