Garlepp's pampas cat
Garlepp's Pampas Cat | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Felinae |
Genus: | Leopardus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | L. c. garleppi
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Trinomial name | |
Leopardus colocola garleppi (Matschie, 1912)
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Synonyms | |
synonyms of L. garleppi
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Garlepp's pampas cat (Leopardus colocola garleppi), also called the northern pampas cat, is a subspecies of the pampas cat. It has more recently been classified as a full species (Leopardus garleppi) within a pampas cat species complex. Garlepp's pampas cat is native to the central-western mountainous area of South America.[1][2][3]
Characteristics
[edit]Leopardus garleppi is a small wild cat with a brownish-grey forehead, orange speckles on the nape and crown, a dark brownish-grey stripe on the spine with some orange hairs sprinkled in, pale brownish-grey or yellowish-brown background color on the body with obvious rosettes of reddish-brown with an orangish-brown interior, and reddish-brown rings on the tail.[1]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Garlepp's pampas cat lives in the Andes Mountains from Colombia to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Nascimento, Fabio Oliveira Do; Cheng, Jilong; Feijó, Anderson (2021-01-09). "Taxonomic revision of the pampas cat Leopardus colocola complex (Carnivora: Felidae): an integrative approach". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 191 (2): 575–611. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa043. ISSN 0024-4082.
- ^ "Garlepp's Pampas Cat (Leopardus garleppi)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ "Leopardus garleppi". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 8 December 2023.