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--> GENUS Puma
SPECIES Puma yagouaroundi
| Author: | É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire, 1803. | | Citation: | Catal. Mam. Mus. Hist. Nat.: 124. | | Common Name: | Jaguarundi | | Type Locality: | "Paraguay", restricted by Hershkovitz, (1951) to "Cayenne, French Guiana". | | Distribution: | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, USA (Arizona, Texas, Florida – introduced), Venezuela. Recently extinct in Uruguay. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I as Herpailurus jagouaroundi (North and Central American populations); otherwise Appendix II. U.S. ESA – Endangered as H. y. cacomitli, H. y. fossata, H. y. panamensis, and H. y. tolteca; IUCN – Endangered as Herpailurus yagouaroundi cacomitli, otherwise Least Concern as H. yagouaroundi. | | Comments: | Others have used yaguaroundi Lacépède, 1809, or yagouaroundi Desmarest, 1816, however, the former is invalid and the latter is a junior synonym. Placed in Herpailurus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvíl (1982c). See comments under genus for its inclusion here. Reviewed by Oliveira (1998b). Synonyms allocated according to Cabrera (1957) and Oliveira (1998b). |
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