Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber, 1775) 34:

The savanna tiger-cat is a 2.34 kg felid with a slender long-legged body and long margay-sized thin tail, with proportionally large ears, and a yellowish or gray-yellowish background color with either small open or solid large dot-like rosettes that may coalesce, with two pairs of mammae/teats (Fig. 8a).

The savanna tiger-cat range comprises varying vanishing savanna and dry scrub woodland formations in Brazil and the Guiana Shield, which means that they mostly live in lowland non-forested habitats with low tree cover (typically <50%), with a median canopy height of 3 m that nevertheless has dense undergrowth, and that are mostly found in less productive soils, in areas of dry weather (<1000 mm rainfall/year) with hot temperatures, and in tropical dry/semi-arid climates, typically where the dominant mesopredator/intraguild killer (ocelot) is absent or low in number. Intraguild interactions appear to play a role and to have evolutionarily limited the species multidimensional space.