Puma yagouaroundi (É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 545

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11343895

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4664738F-ECCC-AAD1-9636-3EA8502D1805

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scientific name

Puma yagouaroundi (É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803)
status

 

Puma yagouaroundi (É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803) View in CoL

[Felis] yagouaroundi É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803 View in CoL , Catal. Mam. Mus. Hist. Nat.: 124.

Type Locality: " Paraguay ", restricted by Hershkovitz, (1951) to "Cayenne, French Guiana ".

Vernacular Names: Jaguarundi.

Synonyms: Puma yaguaroundi Lacépède 1809 ; Puma yagouaroundi Desmarest 1816 .

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. yagouaroundi É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. ameghinoi Holmberg 1898

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. cacomitli Berlandier 1859

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. eyra G. Fischer 1814

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. fossata Mearns 1901

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. melantho Thomas 1914

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. panamensis J. A. Allen 1904

Subspecies Puma yagouaroundi subsp. tolteca Thomas 1898

Distribution: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, USA (Arizona, Texas, Florida – introduced), Venezuela. Recently extinct in Uruguay.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix I as Herpailurus jagouaroundi (North and Central American populations); otherwise Appendix II. U.S. ESA – Endangered as H. y. cacomitli , H. y. fossata , H. y. panamensis , and H. y. tolteca; IUCN – Endangered as Herpailurus yagouaroundi cacomitli , otherwise Least Concern as H. yagouaroundi .

Discussion: Others have used yaguaroundi Lacépède, 1809, or yagouaroundi Desmarest, 1816 , however, the former is invalid and the latter is a junior synonym. Placed in Herpailurus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), and Kratochvíl (1982 c). See comments under genus for its inclusion here. Reviewed by Oliveira (1998 b). Synonyms allocated according to Cabrera (1957) and Oliveira (1998 b).

ESA

Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Felidae

Genus

Puma

Loc

Puma yagouaroundi (É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Felis] yagouaroundi

É. Geoffory Saint-Hilaire 1803: 124
1803
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