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--> GENUS Leopardus
SPECIES Leopardus wiedii
| Author: | Schinz, 1821. | | Citation: | Cuvier, Das Thierreich, 1: 235. | | Common Name: | Margay | | Type Locality: | "Brasilien", restricted by J. A. Allen (1919b:357) to "northern Espirito Santo, Brazil", and further restricted by Cabrera (1957:290), to "Brasil, restringida al Morro de Arará, sobre el rio Mucurí, estado de Baía". | | Distribution: | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, USA (Texas), Uruguay, Venezuela. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered (from Mexico southward); IUCN – Least Concern. | | Comments: | Placed in Leopardus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvíl (1982c). Allen (1919b) and Weigel (1961) suggested that wiedii (in part) may be conspecific with tigrinus; however, Hemmer (1978) considered differences between wiedii and tigrinus to warrant generic distinction. Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1941d), Cabrera (1957), Hall (1981), and Oliveira (1998a). |
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