Tabby Cat Breed

Tabby cats are swirled like marble, which is called classic coloring. These cat breed look like a tiger because it has tabby fur. They have a striation that makes them appear shimmery in the sunlight.

Some cats have the patched type of tabby is called the ticked. Patch tabby can show up as the brown and red tabby patches on single animals.

Tabby cats often have a distinctive M-shaped marking on their foreheads. Tabbies may come in all shapes and sizes, and many cat breeds include a tabby variation along with solid color variations.

Some tabby cat has marks on its forehead with the striped pattern which is called the Mackeral tabby.

tabby. A tabby cat is very cute and lovely cat and it is a domestic cat and that has different coating featuring like distinctive feature stripes, dots, lines and swirling pattern.
Tabbies are sometime wrongly consider that it is a specific cat breed. In fact, tabby pattern found in many breeds. Tabby pattern is naturally occurring feature that may be related to the colouration of fur.
A genetic found five genetic clusters from tabbies to be ancestral to wildcats of various parts of the world. The English term tabby originates from the translation of the French phrase "striped silk taffeta", the root of which is tabbic, meaning a rich watered silk.
Usage the name of tabby cat mean that one tabby cat colour with striped coat. In fact the tabby is indicative of female cat may be reference to the feminine proper name tabby and as a shortened form of Tabitha.
Prototypical tabby patterns in the head region have a mark on the forehead. Tabby cat has a bright eyes rims and boarders of ears. Tabby cat has the dark line on their cheeks. A Seal lynx point showing the bulls eye classic pattern.

Brown Spotted tabby pattern on an Ocicat:

There are four types of tabby cat that have been shown genetically distinct like Mackerel, Classic, and Spotted and ticked. Another tabby cat has a basic pattern colour like patched tabby cat is known as a calico cat.

All those patterns have been observed in random-bred populations. Several additional patterns of tabby cat are found in specific breeds.

Some of tabby cat due to interaction of wild and domestic genes. 

Mackerel Tabby:

The Mackerel tabby pattern has vertical and gently curving stripes on the side of the body. The stripes are narrow and may be continuous or broken into bars and spots on the flanks and stomach. An "M" shape appears on the forehead, along with dark lines across the cat's cheeks to the corners of its eyes. 

Classic tabby:

The Classic tabby tends to have a pattern of dark browns and black but also occurs in grey. Classic tabbies have the "M" pattern on their foreheads but the body markings have a whirled or swirled pattern on the cat's sides. There is also a light colored "butterfly" pattern on the shoulders and three thin stripes running along its spine. Like the Mackerel tabby, Classic tabbies have dark bars on the legs, tail, and cheeks.

Ticked tabby:

The Ticked tabby pattern produces agouti hairs, hairs with distinct bands of color on them, breaking up the tabby patterning into a "salt-and-pepper". Residual ghost striping or "barring" can often be seen on the lower legs, face, and belly and sometimes at the tail tip, as well as a long dark line running along the back, usually in the spine.

Spotted tabby:

The Spotted tabby is a modifier that breaks up the Mackerel tabby pattern so that the stripes appear as spots. Similarly, the stripes of the Classic tabby pattern may be broken into larger spots. Both large spot and small spot patterns can be seen in the Australian Mist, Bengal, Serengeti ,Maine Coon, and Ocicat breeds.