The 5 tabby cat patterns.
Cat marbled tabby.
All red or orange cats have tabby markings because the gene that carries this color pattern is the same gene that carries orange coloration.
Brown torby brown spotted torby patches of brown tabby and red tabby.
The cat pictured in this chart has a very high color contrast which shows his whorls clearly.
In this case the spots define large or disordered and irregular shapes in the cat s body.
Sometimes it is possible to see a glimpse of the tabby markings on solid cats which is referred to as a ghost tabby markings.
Sometimes the spots link together to resemble more of a striped patterns but these are still considered bengal cats.
A tabby cat is not a breed.
Specific breeds have variations of the four tabby patterns the sokoke coat pattern consists of a modified classic tabby and the bengal coat can consist of marbled arrowhead pawprint doughnut and clouded the latter three are variations of the spotted pattern.
Marble tabby coats often have a marble pattern.
They share many common traits shown in tabby cats too.
This is often called a marbled pattern variation.
This is by far the most common pattern so much so that some people think it should have received the title classic.
Red or orange tabby.
They have a distinctive m.
It s actually a coat pattern and there are five different types of tabby cats.
There are races such as the bengali cat with rosettes or.
Dilute torby blue classic torby.
Checkers we love this creative spin on the specked pattern of tabby cats.
But these cats can also come in cinnamon sorrel colors gray beige charcoal silver or blue color patterns.
Torbies are also called patched tabbies.
Silver tabby featured image credit.
The most well known of orange cats garfield is a classic example of a red tabby.
Silver tabbies are generally a mix of.
Bengal cats also have a striped black tipped tail.
A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat.
Many american shorthair cats demonstrate this pattern.
This spotted tabby cat in english is called as spotted as the spots are distributed throughout the body in a uniform manner.
Marbling in english blotched.
Torties because of random color variation but tabbies due to the patterns in the coloration.
Dot a super sweet name for a girl cat with spots.
This pattern usually has whorls ending in a target on the side of the cat.