Leopardus pardinoides (Gray, 1867) 36:

The clouded tiger-cat is a long-tailed 2.27 kg cat with short-round ears and a remarkably margay-looking head, which has a nice dense sof fur of a rich reddish/orangish/grayish-yellow background color adorned with irregularly shaped medium-large “cloudy” rosettes that are strongly marked and ofen coalesce. Distinctively, the species has only one pair of mammae/teats (Fig. 8b).

The clouded tiger-cat is found in the vanishing cloud forests of the southern Central American and Andean ranges at typically above 1500 m asl, but especially between 2000 and 3000 m asl, where tree cover is very high (90%), with a canopy height of 20 m, in fertile soils, in a sub-tropical/temperate climate with mild temperatures and very abundant rainfall, typically in areas where ocelot numbers are low or absent. The species may have been evolutionarily limited by intraguild interactions.