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Leopardus narinensis
Figure 2 Holotype of Leopardus narinensis (IAvH 5857). Different views of L. Marín-Puerta, Morales-Martínez, Pulido Santacruz, 2025 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.

Galeras Cat

Leopardus narinensis Ruiz-García, 2018

Also calledNariño Cat (eng) · Red Tigrina (eng)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
South America
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • Ruiz-García, Manuel, Myreya Pinedo-Castro, & and Joseph Mark Shostell. (2023). Morphological and Genetics Support for a Hitherto Undescribed Spotted Cat Species (Genus Leopardus; Felidae, Carnivora) from the Southern Colombian Andes. Genes, Vol. 14, No. 1266.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.