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SPECIES Leopardus geoffroyi

Author:d'Orbigny and Gervais, 1844.
Citation:Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1844: 40.
Common Name:Geoffroy's Cat
Type Locality:"des rives du Rio Negro, en Patagonie".
Distribution:Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay.
Status:CITES – Appendix I as Oncifelis geoffroyi; IUCN – Near Threatened as Oncifelis geoffroyi.
Comments:Subspecies allocated according to Cabrera (1958). Revised by Pocock (1940c) and reviewed by Ximenez (1975). Placed in Oncifelis by J. A. Allen (1919a), Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Král and Zima (1980), and Kratochvíl (1982c). Ximeńez (1975) followed Cabrera (1957), and placed geoffroyi in Felis (Leopardus). Includes F. pardoides (Cabrera, 1957).
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SUBSPECIES geoffroyi

SUBSPECIES euxanthus

SUBSPECIES leucobaptus

SUBSPECIES paraguae

SUBSPECIES salinarum

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