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Published November 14, 2025 | Version v1
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Leopardus pardalis

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, 2594 AV The Hague, Netherlands
  • 3. Asociación Ecológica Paquera, Lepanto y Cóbano, PO Box 25 - 5353, Jicaral, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
  • 4. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy
  • 5. Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy
  • 6. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy

Description

Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Fig. 3 F Ocelot

Material examined.

Costa Rica • Puntarenas Province, Karen Mogensen Wildlife Refuge; 09°52'19"N, 085°03'31"W; 334 m alt.; 15.01.2018; tracks.

Identification.

Medium-sized spotted cat. The fur is usually short, pale sandy brown to pale yellow. The body is entirely covered with black spots, which on the flanks become elongated rosettes with brown centres and form a striped pattern on the sides. It may be confused with L. wiedii (see above), but larger and with a proportionately shorter tail, approximately 45 % of the head and body length (Wainwright 2007; Reid and Gόmez Zamora 2022). In the study area the ocelot is recorded in various habitat types in all seasons.

Notes

Published as part of Fonda, Federica, Vezzani, Liam, Mena Aguilar, Luis Ángel, Venegas-Elizondo, Carlos Andrés, Bolaños Brenes, Alexander, Lopez, Dayron Manuel, Romeo, Giuseppe, Sonetti, Dario & Dal Zotto, Matteo, 2025, Mammal diversity and tourism influence in an under-investigated region of Costa Rica, pp. 37-74 in ZooKeys 1260 on pages 37-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.128800

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/0815F808E1E4536E8E25EBFB296CCAF9

Cites
Figure: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.128800.figure3 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1466147 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.128800 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/1B73044D6EBF5FF0BDAF874EDB4F5991 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/4327BF20-1A59-43BD-93CC-4AC6B8098403 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/0815F808E1E4536E8E25EBFB296CCAF9 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/305982149 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313097/taxon/0815F808E1E4536E8E25EBFB296CCAF9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Event date
2018-01-15
Verbatim event date
2018-01-15
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Felidae
Genus
Leopardus
Species
pardalis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Fonda, Vezzani, Aguilar, Venegas-Elizondo, Brenes, Lopez, Romeo, Sonetti & Zotto, 2025

References

  • Wainwright M (2007) The mammals of Costa Rica: A natural history and field guide. Zona Tropical, Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, and London, United Kingdom, 454 pp.
  • Reid F, Gοmez Zamora G (2022) Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press, New York, 286 pp.