COL·VQL57speciesThe Nature Library · Catalogue of Life, 2026
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Eastern Tiger Cat
Leopardus emiliae (Thomas, 1914)
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
- Also published as
- Felis emiliae Thomas, 1914
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Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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References
- Lescroart, Jonas, Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, Molly Cassatt-Johnstone, A. Bonilla-Sánchez, et al. (2026). Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America. Current Biology, Vol. 36.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.