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Published November 14, 2025 | Version v1
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Herpailurus yagouaroundi

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

Herpailurus yagouaroundi (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Material examined.

Costa Rica • Puntarenas Province, Karen Mogensen Wildlife Refuge; 09°52'24"N, 085°03'30"W; 362 m alt.; 15.02.2019; camera trapping.

Identification.

Medium-sized cat. Elongated body, long tail and proportionately short legs. Fur varies in colour from black-grey to reddish-brown. The black phase jaguarundi can look similar to Eira barbara (see below) but can be distinguished by a thinner tail and the absence of a white patch on the throat (Wainwright 2007). Mainly diurnal, unlike other cats of the Wildlife Refuge, which are nocturnal or cathemeral (Beal et al. 2020; Reid and Gόmez Zamora 2022). Uncommon in the Wildlife Refuge. Recorded in various habitat types.

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/3D0DDDF83A605944BC18D9BFAB193DDD

Cites
Publication: 10.15560/16.4.939 (DOI)
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/3D0DDDF83A605944BC18D9BFAB193DDD (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/305982146 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313097/taxon/3D0DDDF83A605944BC18D9BFAB193DDD.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-02-15
Verbatim event date
2019-02-15
Scientific name authorship
E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Felidae
Genus
Herpailurus
Species
yagouaroundi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Herpailurus yagouaroundi (Saint-Hilaire, 1803) 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.
  • Beal MR, Matzinger PJ, Saborío-R G, Bristan JN, Olson ER (2020) Survey of medium-sized and large mammals of Piedras Blancas National Park, Costa Rica. Check List 16: 939. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.4.939
  • Reid F, Gοmez Zamora G (2022) Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press, New York, 286 pp.