Leopardus wiedii (Schinz, 1821)

Common names: Margay (English), Gato-maracajá (Brazilian Portuguese).

Localities: BRAZIL, 15 specimens (Fig. 9): Amazonas: MPEG 473 (female, skin); São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Parque Nacional do Pico da Neblina, BR 307, km 80, comunidade Parintins: MPEG 43029 (unknown sex, skin); São Sebastião do Uatumã, UHE Balbina, Rio Uatumã: MPEG 22156 (female, skin and skull). Maranhão: Aldeia Gurupiúna, Reserva Indígena Alto Turiaçu: MPEG 22021 (unknown sex, skin). Pará: Benevides: MPEG 709 (male, skull); Ipixuna do Pará: MPEG 38327 (unknown sex, skin); Juruti, Rio Mamuru (in the original label is Santarém, but the Rio Mamuru is at Juruti municipality: MPEG 41093 (unknown sex, skin); Monte Alegre, Curral Grande: MPEG 5617 (male, skull); Óbidos / Oriximiná, Cachoeira da Paciência, Rio Cuminá, ‘ Cachoeira Paciência, Rio’: MPEG 2161 (male, skull); Santarém, Curuá-Una, 44 km S e 40 km E de Santarém: MPEG 20204 (male, skull); Santarém: MPEG 5619 (female, skull), MPEG 5650 (female, skull), MPEG 5608 (male, skull); São João (= São João do Araguaia), Rio Araguaia: MPEG 428 (male, skin). Rio Grande do Sul: São Jerônimo, Conde: MPEG 22191 (female, skin and skull). Jardim Zoológico (Zoological Garden), 25 specimens: MPEG 4125, MPEG 4129, MPEG 4133, MPEG 4134, MPEG 4136, MPEG 4138, MPEG 4140, MPEG 4141, MPEG 4143, MPEG 4144, MPEG 4146, MPEG 4154, MPEG 6497, MPEG 6502 (females, skull); MPEG 4126, MPEG 4127, MPEG 4130-4132, MPEG 4137, MPEG 4139, MPEG 4142 (males, skull); MPEG 8860, MPEG 8862 (males with skin,skull and postcranium); MPEG 8863 (unknown sex, skull). Unknown locality, 2 specimens: MPEG 6505, MPEG 22376 (males, skull).

Comments:

1) Leopardus wiedii is considered as Vulnerable in Brazil (DOU, 2014), Near Threatened in IUCN Red List due population decline by habitat loss, fragmentation, roads, illegal trade, and retaliatory killing (IUCN, 2017), and is included in CITES Appendix I (CITES, 2017),