Leopardus pardalis Linnaeus 1758 (ocelot)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

Alternative combination: Felis pardalis

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Belongs to Leopardus according to W. E. Johnson et al. 2006

See also Alroy 2002, Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser 2017, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Linnaeus 1758 and Thomas 1911

Sister taxa: Leopardus braccatus, Leopardus colocolo, Leopardus geoffroyi, Leopardus guigna, Leopardus guttulus, Leopardus jacobita, Leopardus tigrinus, Leopardus vorohuensis, Leopardus wiedii

Ecology: scansorial carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Brazil (7), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (1: Florida), Uruguay (1), Venezuela (1)

Total: 13 collections including 14 occurrences

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