Garlepp's Pampas Cat
Leopardus garleppi (Matschie, 1912)
Also calledNorthern Pampas Cat (eng)
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.
- Recorded from
- South America
- Also published as
- Felis colocolo crespoi Cabrera, 1957; Felis pajeros garleppi Matschie, 1912; Leopardus colocola budini (Pocock, 1941); Leopardus colocola garleppi (Matschie, 1912); Leopardus colocola wolffsohni (García-Perea, 1994); Leopardus colocolo budini (Pocock, 1941); Leopardus colocolo crespoi (Cabrera, 1957); Leopardus colocolo garleppi (Matschie, 1912); Leopardus colocolo thomasi (Lönnberg, 1913); Leopardus colocolo wolffsohni (García-Perea, 1994); Leopardus pajeros budini (Pocock, 1941); Leopardus pajeros garleppi (Matschie, 1912)
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Description
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.
Range & habitat
Garlepp's pampas cat lives in the Andes Mountains from Colombia to northwestern Argentina and northern Chile.
== References ==
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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References
- Nascimento, Fabio Oliveira Do, Jilong Cheng, & and Anderson Feijó. (2021). Taxonomic revision of the pampas cat Leopardus colocola complex (Carnivora: Felidae): an integrative approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 191, No. 2.
- Pocock, R. I. (1941). The examples of the Colocolo and of the Pampas Cat in the British Museum. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 11th Ser., Vol. 7, No. 39.
- Cabrera, & Angel. (1957). Catálogo de los mamíferos de América del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”. Ciencias Zoológicas, Vol. 4, No. 1.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.