Herpailurus yaguarondi (Lacépède, 1809)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 291

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scientific name	Herpailurus yaguarondi (Lacépède, 1809)
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Herpailurus yaguarondi (Lacépède, 1809) View in CoL . In Azara, Voy. Am. Mérid., Atlas, 1809: pl. 10.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Paraguay ", restricted by Hershkovitz (1951) to "Cayenne, French Guiana " .

DISTRIBUTION: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico, Surinam, USA (Arizona and Texas), Venezuela.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I (North and Central American populations); otherwise Appendix II. U.S. ESA - Endangered as F. y. cacomitli , F. y. fossato, F. y. panamensis , and F. y. tolteca; IUCN - Indeterminate.

SYNONYMS: ameghinoi Holmberg, 1898; apache Mearns, 1901 ; cacomitli Berlandier, 1859 ; darwini Martin, 1837; eira Desmarest, 1816; eyra Fischer, 1814; fossato Mearns, 1901; melantho Thomas, 1914; panamensis Allen, 1904 ; tolteca Thomas, 1898; unicolor Traill, 1819 .

COMMENTS: Others have used yagouaroundi É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803 , or yaguarondi Desmarest, 1816 , however, the former was never officially published (see Appendix I) and the latter is a junior synonym. Placed in Herpailurus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvll (1982c).