Muñoa pampas cat

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Muñoa pampas cat
Systematics
Order : Predators (Carnivora)
Subordination : Feline (Feliformia)
Family : Cats (Felidae)
Subfamily : Small cats (Felinae)
Genre : Leopard cats ( leopardus )
Type : Muñoa pampas cat
Scientific name
Leopardus munoai
( Ximénez , 1961)

The Muñoa pampas cat ( Leopardus munoai ) is a small cat species from the genus of the pardle cats that occurs in Uruguay , in the adjacent south of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and in the Argentine province of Corrientes .

features

It is about the size of a large house cat and has a yellowish-gray basic color. The sides of the body are provided with more or less clearly pronounced oblique, dark yellow lines. The back line is dark yellow-gray. There are also blackish longitudinal stripes on the chest and torso, and narrow dark yellow and dark brown stripes on the throat. The top of the paws are light, the undersides are blackish. The tail is marked with a few half-rings near the end of the tail and a small black tip.

Systematics

The species was first scientifically described in 1961 under the name Felis colocolo munoai , named after the Uruguayan zoologist Juan Ignacio Muñoa and assigned to the Pampas cat as a subspecies. The Spanish zoologist Rosa García-Perea divided the pampas cat into three species in 1994 and placed L. munoai as a subspecies to L. braccatus . 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 predator band appeared in 2009, Leopardus munoai 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. munoai as a subspecies 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. In a revision of the Pampas cat group published in June 2020, the species became independent as Leopardus munoai 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. Leopardus munoai was probably separated from Leopardus pajeros by the Río Paraná , and from Leopardus braccatus , its sister species , the cat living in open landscapes was separated by forest areas in southern and southwestern Brazil.

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. ^ Alfredo Ximénez (1961): Nueva subespécie del gato pajero em el Uruguay Felis colocola muñoai n. Ssp. Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo 5: 1–8.
  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 braccatus 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.