The Bengal cat is well known. There are other types of the Bengal Hybrid cats, not yet formally recognized by the NZCF and other registering bodies. These are:

The Renegade is a Bengal crossed with a Maine Coon.
The hair is semi-long and the pattern and colouring will be that of a Bengal cat..

The Renegade cat will be a semi-long haired Bengal cat with Maine Coon size and probably will also come with lynx tips but will look different to the Cashmere Cat, because of the Maine Coon influence.

Is the hair longer than the Bengal cat? I do think so, as the informal breed standard states that the Renegade cat has medium length hair. The texture should be dense, soft and luxurious.

The longer length cat coat (the Bengal cat coat is quite short and tight to the body) comes from a recessive gene introduced in the early days of development when the Bengal were cross bred with mixed breed cats, Egyptian Mau (shorthair), and Himalayan cats (these are pointed Persian cats and therefore long haired). The long haired gene may have also come from the recessive long haired gene in the Abyssinian cat (a long haired Abyssinian is the recognized breed, the Somali cat).
There have also been alleged crosses the Bengal cat and American Bobcats to produce a wildcat hybrid (with a short tail?). Also Bengals mating with the American Lynx is alleged.

A cat called the Pantherette is founded upon the melanistic Bengal cat. This is a black Bengal cat that has black on black markings. It can occur when both parents carry the recessive gene for melanistic black. Black Bengal cats just happen sometimes, I expect very rarely.

Finally, in addition there have been Bengal variants in respect of color. The colors have been blue on apricot, chocolate, cinammon and tortoiseshell (see black tortoiseshell), black and Tonkinese colored Bengal cats. The established Bengal cats for sale breeders don't like this.

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