Garlepp Pampas Cat

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Garlepp Pampas Cat
Systematics
Order : Predators (Carnivora)
Subordination : Feline (Feliformia)
Family : Cats (Felidae)
Subfamily : Small cats (Felinae)
Genre : Leopard cats ( leopardus )
Type : Garlepp Pampas Cat
Scientific name
Leopardus garleppi
( Matschie , 1894)

The Garlepp's pampas cat ( Leopardus garleppi ) (English: Garlepp's pampas cat or northern pampas cat) is a small cat from the genus of the pardle cats that live on both sides of the Andes from Ecuador in the north to northwestern Argentina ( province of Catamarca ) and northern Chile ( Región de Tarapacá ) occurs in the south.

features

The Garlepp Pampas cat is about the size of a large house cat and has a light gray-brown or yellow-brown basic color and is patterned with rosettes arranged in oblique bands . The rosettes are orange on the inside and have brown edges. A stripe along the middle of the back is dark gray-brown with individual orange hairs. The head is brownish-orange. Black, dark brown, or dark yellow-brown stripes can be seen on the throat. One is always significantly wider than the rest. The tail is banded with reddish brown from the base to the tip.

Systematics

The species was first scientifically described in 1894 by the German zoologist Paul Matschie under the name Felis garleppi . It was later assigned as a subspecies to Leopardus colocolo . The Spanish zoologist Rosa García-Perea divided Leopardus colocolo into three species in 1994 and placed L. garleppi as a subspecies to L. pajeros . This was adopted in the zoological reference work Mammal Species of the World . In the Handbook of the Mammals of the World , another standard work, whose volume of predators appeared in 2009, Leopardus garleppi was again assigned as a subspecies of the Pampas cat and the specialist group of the international environmental protection association ( IUCN / SSC Cat Specialist Specialist Group ) lists L. garleppi as Subspecies of the Pampas cat. stresses in a revision of the cat system published in 2017, however, that some subspecies of the Pampas cat could receive the status of independent species in the future after further investigations. It was not until a revision of the Pampas cat group published in June 2020 that the species became independent again as Leopardus garleppi after five clades were found in the Pampas cat group that differed in skull morphology, coat color and genome and which also have different distribution areas. L. budini, L. crespoi, L. steinbachi, L. thomasi and L. wolffsohni are synonyms of Leopardus garleppi . The type epithet refers to the German natural scientist Otto Garlepp (1864-1959) who collected the type specimen.

Religious meaning

For the Kallawaya living in northern Bolivia , the cat species, called osqollo in Quechua , is a particularly sacred animal . She is associated with the powerful mountain deities . Therefore, before a ceremony on the mountain, the cat is ritually asked for permission. Killing them is taboo . Furthermore, whoever comes into contact with her must make offerings to her in the future .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Fabio Oliveira do Nascimento, Jilong Cheng and Anderson Feijó (2020). Taxonomic revision of the pampas cat Leopardus colocola complex (Carnivora: Felidae): an integrative approach. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, XX, 1-37, doi: 10.1093 / zoolinnean / zlaa043
  2. ^ Paul Matschie (1912): About Felis jacobita, colocola and two similar cats. Meeting reports of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin 4: 255–259.
  3. ↑ Rosa García-Perea: The Pampas Cat Group (Genus Lynchailurus Severtzov, 1858) (Carnivora: Felidae), a Systematic and Biogeographic Review. American Museum Novitates 3096, 1994; Pp. 1-36.
  4. ↑ Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (eds.): Leopardus pajeros in Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed).
  5. ↑ http://www.catsg.org/index.php?id=87
  6. ↑ Leopardus colocolo in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by:. T. de Oliveira et al, 2008. Accessed January 24, 2009.
  7. ↑ Kitchener AC, Breitenmoser-Würsten Ch., Eizirik E., Gentry A., Werdelin L., Wilting A., Yamaguchi N., Abramov AV, Christiansen P., Driscoll C., Duckworth JW, Johnson W., Luo S. .-J., Meijaard E., O'Donoghue P., Sanderson J., Seymour K., Bruford M., Groves C., Hoffmann M., Nowell K., Timmons Z. & Tobe S. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN / SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11, 80 pp.
  8. ^ Friedrich Schwangart: From the Zoological Collection of the Bavarian State: South American Bush, Mountain and Steppe Cats Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Department, New Series. Issue 49, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, 1941, p. 34
  9. ↑ Ina Rösing : Dialogues with gods of mountains, lightning, springs and lakes. Weisse Kallawaya-Gebete, Ulm 1994 (= Ulmer Kulturanthropologische Schriften 1), pp. 166–167 and 181.