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A Comparison of Individual Breeds among the member organisations

Bengal
Breed Name	Bengal	Bengal		Bengal	Bengal	Bengal	Bengal	Bengal	Bengal
Recognition status	full	full	not recognized	full: brown (black) spotted brown (black) marbled snow spotted provisional: snow marbled preliminary: black silver spotted black silver marbled silver snow spotted silver snow marbled	full	Full Challenge Status confirmed for full Register Exhibits only. Provisional Register Bengals may be displayed at shows, but are not eligible to compete.	full	full	full
Breed code	BEN	none		BEN	76	BEN	BEN	BG	none
Allowable outcrosses	none	none		none	none for brown and snow Bengals black silver spotted American Shorthairs for black silver Bengals and silver snow Bengals only	none	none	within breed group, no unknowns	none
Recognised colours	brown (black) and black silver in spotted, marbled, sepia, mink and lynx point	spotted and marbled pattern in brown, sepia, mink, seal lynx point and black silver		spotted and marbled pattern in brown (black), seal sepia, seal mink point and snow	76 30 brown (black) spotted 76a30 any other colour eyed snow spotted 76b30 blue-eyed snow spotted 6 20& brown (black) marbled 76a20 any other colour eyed snow marbled 76b20 blue-eyed snow marbled 76 30s black silver spotted 76a30s any other colour eyed silver snow spotted 76b30s blue-eyed silver snow spotted 76 20s black silver marbled 76a20s any other colour eyed silver snow marbled 76b20s blue-eyed silver snow marbled	brown leopard spotted snow leopard spotted black silver tabby seal silver sepia tabby brown marble patterned snow marble patterned seal silver lynx tabbypoint seal silver mink tabby	brown tabby brown blue-eyed snows brown sepia / mink	brown tabby seal sepia tabby seal mink tabby seal lynx point black silver tabby seal silver sepia tabby seal silver mink tabby seal silver lynx point spotted or marbled patterns only	brown spotted tabby brown marbled tabby seal spotted lynx-point seal marbled lynx-point seal sepia spotted tabby seal sepia marbled tabby seal mink spotted tabby seal mink marbled tabby
Breeding restrictions		Non-silver progeny of silver cats may not be exhibited, except as part of a litter containing at least 1 silver kitten, and may only be used for breeding with silver cats. They are designated as ‘silver Bengal variants’. No blue dilute (dd) Bengal of any colour is recognised: should such a kitten appear in a litter it may not be registered, bred from or exhibited even as part of a litter. The parents of the litter, and all subsequent progeny of either parent to have their pedigree certificates marked as carriers/potential carriers of the unwanted gene.		Novice* cats are not permitted. Cross-breeding with Bengals is not permitted. Bengals of generations F1–F4 are not allowed for breeding. *A novice is a cat without registration papers which may be shown in a special class in order to gain breed recognition	F4, F5 and F6 Bengals are registered of the Supplementary Register. F7 Bengals and subsequent generations are registered on the full Register Bengal x Asian leopard Cat F1 Hybrid cats of Bengal Type, F2 cats of Bengal Type and F3 cats of Bengal Type are no longer able to be registered. Longhaired and non-agouti kittens produced from Bengal x Bengal matings are not able to be registered as Bengals.	Most breeders enforce some breeding restrictions for the well being of the breed.
Special notes	Only F4 + allowed into Australia.				A survey carried out by Professor Danielle Gunn-Moore at Edinburgh University has shown Bengals to be of Blood Group B.