Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber, 1775)

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scientific name	Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber, 1775)
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Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber, 1775) View in CoL . Die Säugethiere, 2(15):pl. 106 (1775]; text, 3(23):396 [1777).

TYPE LOCALITY: "südlichen Amerika", restricted by Allen (1919a:356), to "Cayenne" [ French Guiana] .

DISTRIBUTION: N Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: andina Thomas, 1903 ; carrikeri J. A. Allen, 1904; caucensis J. A. Allen, 1915 ; elenae J. A. Allen, 1915; emerita Thomas, 1912 ; emiliae Thomas, 1914; geoffroyi Elliot, 1872 ; guttula Hensel, 1872; margay Müller, 1776; ondila Thomas, 1903; pardinoides Gray, 1867 .

COMMENTS: Placed in Leopardus by Allen (1919a:345), Weigel (1961), and Kratochvfl (1982c); placed in Ondfelis (with O. guigna and O. geoffroyi ) by Hemmer (1978). L. tigrinus shares a derived chromosomal number with pardalis and wiedii ( Wurster-Hill, 1973) . Includes Felis pardinoides ( Cabrera, 1958:286) ; Allen (1919a:345) and Weigel (1961) considered pardinoides as distinct, but closely related to tigrinus .