Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber 1775)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 539

Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber 1775)

[Felis] tigrina Schreber 1775 , Die Saugethiere, Vol. 2, 15: pl. 106 [1775]; see also text, 3 (23): 396 [1777].

Type Locality: "südlichen Amerika", restricted by J. A. Allen (1919 b:356), to "Cayenne" [ French Guiana] .

Vernacular Names: Oncilla.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Leopardus tigrinus subsp. tigrinus Schreber 1775

Subspecies Leopardus tigrinus subsp. guttulus Hensel 1872

Subspecies Leopardus tigrinus subsp. oncilla Thomas 1903

Subspecies Leopardus tigrinus subsp. pardinoides Gray 1867

Distribution: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Nicaragua (?), Panama, Paraguay (?), Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Near Threatened.

Discussion: Placed in Leopardus by J. A. Allen (1919 b), Weigel (1961), and Kratochvíl (1982 c); 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 (1919 b) and Weigel (1961) who considered pardinoides as distinct, but closely related to tigrinus . Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1941 c), Cabrera (1957), and Hall (1981).