Leopardus guttulus
(Hensel, 1872)
Atlantic Forest Oncilla
Taxonomy
Subclass | : Theria |
Infraclass | : Placentalia |
Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
Order | : Carnivora |
Suborder | : Feliformia |
Infraorder | : Feloidea |
Family | : Felidae |
Subfamily | : Felinae |
Genus | : Leopardus |
Species status
Authority citation
Hensel, R. 1872. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Säugethiere Süd-Brasiliens. Buchdrückerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 130 pp.
Authority publication link
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15561867Original name as described
Felis guttula
Other common names
Southern Tigrina · Southern Tiger Cat · Atlantic Forest Tiger Cat · Southern Oncilla
Type material
ZMB 21229, ZMB 21231
Type kind
syntypes
Type locality
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Biogeographic realm
Neotropic
Country distribution
Brazil · Paraguay · Argentina
Taxonomy notes
split from L. tigrinus
Taxonomy notes citation
Trigo, T.C., Schneider, A., de Oliveira,T.G., Lehugeur, L.M., Silveira, L., Freitas, T.R.O. and Eizirik, E. 2013a. Molecular data reveal complex hybridization and a cryptic species of Neotropical wild cat. Current Biology 23(24): 2528-2533. · Kitchener A. C., Breitenmoser-Würsten Ch., Eizirik E., Gentry A., Werdelin L., Wilting A., Yamaguchi N., Abramov A. V., Christiansen P., Driscoll C., Duckworth J. W., Johnson W., Luo S.-J., Meijaard E., O'Donoghue P., Sanderson J., Seymour K., Bruford M., Groves C., Hoffmann M., Nowell K., Timmons Z. & Tobe S. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11, 80 pp. · Lescroart, J., Bonilla-Sánchez, A., Napolitano, C., Buitrago-Torres, D. L., Ramírez-Chaves, H. E., Pulido-Santacruz, P., ... & Eizirik, E. (2023). Extensive phylogenomic discordance and the complex evolutionary history of the Neotropical cat genus Leopardus. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(12), msad255. · de Oliveira, T. G., Fox-Rosales, L. A., Ramírez-Fernández, J. D., Cepeda-Duque, J. C., Zug, R., Sanchez-Lalinde, C., ... & Rodrigues, F. H. (2024). Ecological modeling, biogeography, and phenotypic analyses setting the tiger cats’ hyperdimensional niches reveal a new species. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 2395.
IUCN Red List status
Vulnerable
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