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Leopardus geoffroyi (Geoffroy's Cat)

Synonyms: Felis geoffroyi; Oncifelis geoffroyi

Wikipedia Abstract

Geoffroy's cat (Leopardus geoffroyi) is a wild cat native to the southern and central regions of South America. It is about the size of a domestic cat. While the species is relatively common in many areas, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because it is widespread and abundant over most of its range.
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Infraspecies

Leopardus geoffroyi euxanthus (Geoffroy's cat)
Leopardus geoffroyi geoffroyi (Geoffroy's cat)
Leopardus geoffroyi leucobaptus (Geoffroy's cat)
Leopardus geoffroyi paraguae (Geoffroy's cat)
Leopardus geoffroyi salinarum (Geoffroy's cat)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
32
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.4
EDGE Score: 2.82
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.819 lbs (4.00 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  93 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  80 %
Diet - Fish [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 3 months
Gestation [1]  75 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  23 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  28 inches (70 cm)
Weaning [1]  68 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Akodon molinae (Molina's grass mouse)[5]
Calomys musculinus (drylands vesper mouse)[5]
Eudromia formosa (Quebracho Crested Tinamou)[6]
Holochilus brasiliensis (web-footed marsh rat)[7]
Myocastor coypus (nutria)[7]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Homo sapiens (man)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Echinococcus oligarthrus[9]
Gnathostoma americanum <Unverified Name>[9]
Taenia macrocystis <Unverified Name>[9]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5"Food habits of Geoffroy's cat (Leopardus geoffroyi) in the central Monte desert of Argentina", Silvina B.C. Bisceglia, Javier A. Pereira, Pablo Teta, Rubén D. Quintana, Journal of Arid Environments Volume 72, Issue 6, June 2008, Pages 1120–1126
♦ 6Smith, P. (2014). Natural history observations on the poorly-studied Quebracho Crested Tinamou Eudromia formosa (Aves: Tinamiformes: Tinamidae). Historia Natural, Tercera Serie, 4, 39-44.
♦ 7"Feeding habits of Geoffroy's cat (Leopardus geoffroyi) in southern Brazil", Kleisson S. Sousa, A. Bager, Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde Volume 73, Issue 4, 15 July 2008, Pages 303–308
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0