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Leopardus wiedii

Description

Leopardus wiedii (Schinz 1821)

[Felis] wiedii Schinz 1821, in: G. Cuvier, Das Thierreich, Vol. 1: 235.

Type Locality: " Brasilien ", restricted by J. A. Allen (1919 b: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 ".

Vernacular Names: Margay.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. wiedii Schinz 1821

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. amazonicus Cabrera 1917

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. boliviae Pocock 1941

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. cooperi Goldman 1943

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. glauculus Thomas 1903

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. nicaraguae J. A. Allen 1919

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. oaxacensis Nelson and Goldman 1931

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. pirrensis Goldman 1914

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. salvinius Pocock 1941

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. vigens Thomas 1904

Subspecies Leopardus wiedii subsp. yucatanicus Nelson and Goldman 1931

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.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I; U.S. ESA – Endangered (from Mexico southward); IUCN – Least Concern.

Discussion: Placed in Leopardus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvíl (1982 c). Allen (1919 b) 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 (1941 d), Cabrera (1957), Hall (1981), and Oliveira (1998 a).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 539, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schinz
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Felidae
Genus
Leopardus
Species
wiedii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Leopardus wiedii (Schinz, 1821) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Allen, J. A. 1919 b. Preliminary notes on African Carnivora. Journal of Mammalogy, 1 (1): 23 - 31.
  • Cabrera, A. 1957 [1958] - 1961. Catalogo de los mamiferos de America del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales " Bernardino Rivadavia ". Ciencias Zoologicas, 4 (1): iv + 308 pp. [1958]; 4 (2): v-xxii + 309 - 732 [1961].
  • Thomas, O. 1903. Notes on Neotropical mammals of the genera Felis, Hapale, Oryzomys, Akodon, and Ctenomys, with descriptions of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 12: 234 - 243.
  • Weigel, I. 1961. Das Fellmuster der wildlebenden Katzenarten und der Hauskatze in Vergleichender und Stammesgeschicher Hinsicht. Saugetierkundliche Mitteilungen, 9: 1 - 120.
  • Hemmer, H. 1978. The evolutionary systematics of living Felidae: Present status and current problems. Carnivore, 1 (1): 71 - 79.
  • Pocock, R. I. 1941 d. The examples of the Colocolo and of the Pampas Cat in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 11, 7: 257 - 274.
  • Hall, E. R. 1981. The mammals of North America. Second ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1: 1 - 600 + 90, 2: 601 - 1181 + 90.
  • Oliveira, T. G., de. 1998 a. Leopardus wiedii. Mammalian Species, 579: 1 - 6.