Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, Check List 16 (1), pp. 127-136 : 132

Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus, 1758) , Ocelot

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Records. Recorded by line transect (09°17.863′S, 068° 58.650′W), camera trapping, hunter interviews, and hunting calendar.

Identification. The head and paws are proportionally large. The coloration varies from pale yellowish-gray to brown with diverse intermediate tonalities. The ventral surface is whitish, and the black blotches tend to form

open rosettes in small clusters, forming longitudinal stripes on its flanks ( Murray and Gardner 1997).