Leopardus wiedii (Schinz, 1821)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 292

Leopardus wiedii (Schinz, 1821) . In G. Cuvier, Das Thierreich, 1:235.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Brasilien ", restricted by Allen (1919a:357) to "northern Espirito Santo, Brazil ", and further restricted by Cabrera (1958:290), to " Brasil, restringida al Morro de Ararâ, sobre el rio Mucurf, estado de Baia " .

DISTRIBUTION: N Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, USA (Texas), Uruguay, Venezuela.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered (from Mexico southward); IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: amazonica Cabrera, 1917; andina Allen, 1916 ; boliviae Pocock, 1941; catenata H. Smith, 1827; cooperi Goldman, 1943; elegans Lesson, 1830 ; geoffroyi Rochebrune, 1895 ; glaucula Thomas, 1903 ; ludovici Lönnberg, 1925; macroura Wied, 1823 ; macrura Hensel, 1872; mexicana Saussure, 1860 ; nicaraguae J. A. Allen, 1919; oaxacensis Nelson and Goldman, 1931; pardictis Pocock, 1941; pirrensis Goldman, 1914 ; salvinia Pocock, 1941; sanctaemartae Allen, 1906; tigrinoides Gray, 1842; vigens Thomas, 1904; yucatanica Nelson and Goldman, 1931.

COMMENTS: Placed in Leopardus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvfl (1982c). Allen (1919a) and Weigel (1961) suggested that wiedii (in part) may be conspecific with tigrinus ; however, Hemmer (1978) considered differences between wiedii and tigrinus to warrant generic distinction.