The Cretan wildcat is a member of the genus Felis that inhabits the Greek island of Crete.

Crete's Pleistocene endemic mammalian fauna comprised rodents and herbivores, but remains of predators were not found.

[4] Fragments of a domestic cat were also found at the archaeological site Gortyn dating to the 6th to 7th century AD.

[10] This was contested by Pocock in 1907, who said the skin was that of a feral domestic cat, but Miller in 1912 considered it a full species as Felis agrius, while Schwarz in 1930 followed Miss Bate's opinion.

[14][15] In the 1980s, Colin Groves measured and assessed zoological specimens of cats that originated in the Mediterranean islands.