Felidae, Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

Torres-Porras, Jeronimo, Cobos, Marlon E, Seoane, José Manuel & Aguirre, Nikolay, 2017, Large and medium-sized mammals of Buenaventura Reserve, southwestern Ecuador, Check List 13 (4), pp. 35-45 : 40

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.35
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5480836
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scientific name	Felidae
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Family Felidae View in CoL

Herpailurus yagouaroundi ( Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803) View in CoL : Figure 2

Felis yagouaroundi Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803 View in CoL .

Herpailurus yagouaroundi View in CoL — Tirira 2007, Caso et al. 2015.

Material examined: Table 2.

Short, uniform and spotless pelage, brown, grayish brown, reddish brown, fawn yellow or black; the belly is slightly paler; small and flat head, with small rounded ears; short snout and elongated neck; uniform tail color, long and thin (exceeds 60% of the length of head and body combined) ( Tirira 2007).

References

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire E (1803) Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle. Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 272 pp.

Tirira DS (2007) Guia de Campo de los Mamiferos del Ecuador. Publicacion especial sobre los mamiferos del Ecuador 6. Ediciones Murcielago Blanco, Quito, 576 pp.