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Leopardus wiedii (Margay)

Synonyms: Felis amnicola; Felis elegans; Felis macroura; Felis wiedii; Leopardus amnicola
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a small cat native to Central and South America that is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN since 2008 because remaining populations are thought to be declining due to loss of habitat following conversion of forests. In his first description, Schinz named the margay Felis wiedii in honour of Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied who collected specimens in Brazil.
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Infraspecies

Leopardus wiedii amazonicus (Margay)
Leopardus wiedii boliviae (Margay)
Leopardus wiedii cooperi (Margay)
Leopardus wiedii glauculus (West Mexican margay)
Leopardus wiedii nicaraguae (Margay)
Leopardus wiedii oaxacensis (Margay)
Leopardus wiedii pirrensis (Margay)
Leopardus wiedii salvinius (Margay)
Leopardus wiedii vigens (Margay)
Leopardus wiedii wiedii (margay)
Leopardus wiedii yucatanicus (Margay)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
35
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.03
EDGE Score: 3
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.084 lbs (3.667 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  167 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  80 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  20 %
Forages - Scansorial [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 9 months
Gestation [1]  81 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  24 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  27 inches (69 cm)
Weaning [1]  56 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dirofilaria striata[8]

Range Map

External References

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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
♦ 3Nathan 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
♦ 4Callithrix pygmaea, Wendy R. Townsend, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 665, pp. 1–6 (2001)
♦ 5Choloepus hoffmanni (Pilosa: Megalonychidae), VIRGINIA HAYSSEN, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(873):37–55 (2011)
♦ 6Agouti paca, Elizabeth M. Pérez, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 404, pp. 1-7 (1992)
♦ 7Movement patterns and food habits of four sympatric carnivore species in Belize, Central America, Michael John Konecny, Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy, 1984:243-264
♦ 8Gibson, 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