It s actually a coat pattern and there are five different types of tabby cats.
Cat marbled tabby.
Sometimes the spots link together to resemble more of a striped patterns but these are still considered bengal cats.
They have a distinctive m.
Marble tabby coats often have a marble pattern.
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.
But these cats can also come in cinnamon sorrel colors gray beige charcoal silver or blue color patterns.
Dilute torby blue classic torby.
This is often called a marbled pattern variation.
This spotted tabby cat in english is called as spotted as the spots are distributed throughout the body in a uniform manner.
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.
Learn the differences between tabby cat patterns right here.
Torbies are also called patched tabbies.
In this case the spots define large or disordered and irregular shapes in the cat s body.
They share many common traits shown in tabby cats too.
Types of tabby patterns.
This pattern usually has whorls ending in a target on the side of the cat.
Red or orange tabby.
A tabby cat is not a breed.
There are races such as the bengali cat with rosettes or.
Silver tabbies are generally a mix of.
A cat may have spots or marbled fur but that doesn t necessarily make it a bengal cat.
Checkers we love this creative spin on the specked pattern of tabby cats.
The most well known of orange cats garfield is a classic example of a red tabby.
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.
Silver tabby featured image credit.
Marbling in english blotched.
Many american shorthair cats demonstrate this pattern.
Sometimes it is possible to see a glimpse of the tabby markings on solid cats which is referred to as a ghost tabby markings.
This is by far the most common pattern so much so that some people think it should have received the title classic.
Tortoiseshell cats with tabby patterns.