Herpailurus yagouaroundi

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Jaguarundi

Side view from above, feet and tail visible. Formerly Puma yagouaroundi.
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Location:USA, AZ, Pima Co., Tucson, Arizona Sonoran Desert MuseumDate taken:Jan 1, 1988

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 1294

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Feliformia
Infraorder : Aeluroidea
Superfamily : Feloidea
Family : Felidae
Subfamily : Felinae
Genus : Herpailurus

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. 1803. Catalogue des Mammifères du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Privately published, Paris, 272 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/details/bsb10482289

Original name as described

Felis yagouaroundi

Type material

MNHN (no number given)

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

Cayenne, French Guiana.

Biogeographic realm

Nearctic · Neotropic

Country distribution

United States? · Mexico · Guatemala · El Salvador · Belize · Honduras · Nicaragua · Costa Rica · Panama · Colombia · Venezuela · Guyana · Suriname · French Guiana · Ecuador · Peru · Brazil · Bolivia · Paraguay · Argentina · Uruguay?

Subregion distribution

USA(TX?)

Taxonomy notes

moved back to Herpailurus from Puma

Taxonomy notes citation

Segura, V., Prevosti, F.J. and Cassini, G. 2013. Cranial ontogeny in the puma lineage, Puma concolor, Herpailurus yagouaroundi, and Acinonyx jubatus (Carnivora: Felidae): a three-dimensional geometric morphometric approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169(1):235-250. doi:10.1111/zoj.12047

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1005991

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 63 names and synonyms.

Felis mexicanensis

(Link, 1795)

Family

Felidae

Root name

mexicanensis

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

91

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46272967

Authority publication

Rostock

Name usages

Link (1795:91, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46272967) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35635)

Felis yagouaroundi

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)

Family

Felidae

Root name

yagouaroundi

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

MNHN (no number given)

Type kind

lectotype

Authority page

124

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:124) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)
  2. Desmarest (1821:230, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523994) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
  3. Sanborn (1953:7) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/41452)
  4. Burt & Stirton (1961:50) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5545)
  5. Anderson (1972:398) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15657)
  6. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:281) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  7. Corbet & Hill (1991:114) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63070)

Felis yaguarondi

(de Lacépède, 1809)

Family

Felidae

Root name

yaguarondi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

pl. 10

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Fischer (1829:203) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  2. Sclater (1872:40, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17037817) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61617)
  3. Trouessart (1885:103) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58783)
  4. Goodwin (1946:443) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/15800)
  5. Lange (1960:454) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66898)
  6. Anderson (1997:333) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/5773)
  7. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Felis jaguarondi

(G. Cuvier, 1809)

Family

Felidae

Root name

jaguarondi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

158

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3498808

Authority publication

Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle

Name usages

  1. Cuvier (1823:438, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52150009) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68281)
  2. Lesson (1842:55) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36812)
  3. Blainville (1843:60, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/57989694) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68407)
  4. Gray (1867:272, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29533712) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37913)
  5. Gray (1869:23, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8396919) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37331)
  6. Pelzeln (1883:49, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9423271) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37652)
  7. Tate (1939:207) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9796)
  8. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Felis caerulea

(Goldfuss, 1809)

Family

Felidae

Root name

caeruleus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

preoccupied

Authority page

299

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47498133

Authority publication

Erlangen

Name usages

Goldfuss (1809:299, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47498133) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34654)

Felis Eyra

(G. Fischer, 1814)

Family

Felidae

Root name

eyra

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

holotype

Authority page

xii, 228

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130073 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130313

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

  1. Fischer (1814:xii, 228, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130073, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130313) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/12226)
  2. Illiger (1815:109, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080965) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38688)
  3. Muirhead (1819:419) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69481)
  4. Desmarest (1821:231, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523995) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
  5. Schinz (1821:237, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528998) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  6. Lesson (1827:195, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207663) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)
  7. Fischer (1829:213) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)
  8. Rengger (1830:208) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68767)
  9. Giebel (1855:877, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45549068) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38563)
  10. Severtsov (1858:385, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2316657) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68920)
  11. Murray (1866:324, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580320) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  12. Gray (1867:272, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29533712) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37913)
  13. Gray (1869:23, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8396919) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37331)
  14. Frantzius (1869:278, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7058621) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72294)
  15. Sclater (1872:40, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17037817) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61617)
  16. True (1885:611, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7306405) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35039)
  17. Trouessart (1885:103) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/58783)
  18. Allen (1891:310) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/9437)
  19. Alfaro (1897:18) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37835)
  20. Lahille (1899:179, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35147045) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37834)
  21. Cope (1899:250, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36863408) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/57701)
  22. Goeldi & Hagmann (1904:68, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41783248) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37832)
  23. Trouessart (1904:275, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53423156) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59289)
  24. Hay (1930:553, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59236734) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/43205)
  25. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Yaugouroundi

(G. Fischer, 1814)

Family

Felidae

Root name

yaugouroundi

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

notintendedasascientific_name

Authority page

228

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130313

Authority publication

Moscow

Name usages

Fischer (1814:228, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29130313) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/12226)

Felis mellivora

(Illiger, 1815)

Family

Felidae

Root name

mellivora

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_nudum

Authority page

109

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080965

Authority publication

Abhandlungen der physikalischen Klasse der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Name usages

Illiger (1815:109, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11080965) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38688)

Felis eira

(A. G. Desmarest, 1816)

Family

Felidae

Root name

eira

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

114

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18033981

Authority publication

Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle

Name usages

  1. Griffith (1822:85, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016300) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68342)
  2. Ihering (1911:166, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10798684) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37348)
  3. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Felis mellivora

(I. von Olfers, 1818)

Family

Felidae

Root name

mellivorus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Authority page

231

Authority publication

Weimar

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