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--> FAMILY Felidae
--> SUBFAMILY Felinae
--> GENUS Leopardus
SPECIES Leopardus tigrinus
Author: | Schreber, 1775. | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 2(15): pl. 106[1775]; see also text, 3(23):396[1777]. | Common Name: | Oncilla | Type Locality: | "südlichen Amerika", restricted by J. A. Allen (1919b:356), to "Cayenne" [French Guiana]. | Distribution: | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua (?), Panama, Paraguay (?), Peru, Suriname, Venezuela. | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Near Threatened. | Comments: | Placed in Leopardus by J. A. Allen (1919b), Weigel (1961), and Kratochvíl (1982c); placed in Oncifelis (with guigna and geoffroyi) by Hemmer (1978). L. tigrinus shares a derived chromosomal number with pardalis and wiedii (Wurster-Hill, 1973). Includes Felis pardinoides after Cabrera (1958); however, see J. A. Allen (1919b) and Weigel (1961) who considered pardinoides as distinct, but closely related to tigrinus. Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1941c), Cabrera (1957), and Hall (1981). |
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