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American Small Cats
Leopardus
Leopardus is a genus of spotted small cats mostly native to Middle and South America, with a very small range extending into the southern United States. The genus is considered the oldest branch of the part of the cat family to cross into the Americas, followed by the genera Lynx and Puma. (The jaguar is the other extant cat native to the Americas.) The largest species in Leopardus is the ocelot; most of the other species...
14 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 14 known species
Ocelot
speciesLeopardus pardalis
Margay
speciesLeopardus wiedii
Geoffroy's Cat
speciesLeopardus geoffroyi
Southern Tigrina
speciesLeopardus guttulus
Clouded Oncilla
speciesLeopardus pardinoides
Kodkod
speciesLeopardus guigna
Savanna Oncilla
speciesLeopardus tigrinus
Northern Colocolo
speciesLeopardus garleppi
Southern Pampas Cat
speciesLeopardus pajeros
Central Chilean Colocolo
speciesLeopardus colocola
Pantanal Cat
speciesLeopardus braccatus
Andean Cat
speciesLeopardus jacobita
Uruguayan Pantanal Cat
speciesLeopardus fasciatus
Tilcayo
speciesLeopardus tilcayo
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 41986.