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Leopardus tigrinus (Oncilla; tiger cat; little spotted cat)

Synonyms: Felis tigrina

Wikipedia Abstract

The oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus), also known as the little spotted cat, tigrina, tigrillo, or tiger cat, is a small spotted cat native to montane and tropical rainforests of Central and South America. It is active during the night and in twilight, but has also been recorded during the day. The oncilla is a close relative of the ocelot and the margay, and has a rich ochre coat, spotted with black rosettes.
View Wikipedia Record: Leopardus tigrinus

Infraspecies

Felis pardinoides pardinoides
Leopardus tigrinus oncilla
Leopardus tigrinus pardinoides (Tiger cat)
Leopardus tigrinus tigrinus (Tiger cat)

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Leopardus tigrinus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.4
EDGE Score: 3.51
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.96 lbs (2.25 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates)
Diet - Endothermic [2]  100 %
Gestation [1]  75 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  22 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  22 inches (55 cm)
Weaning [1]  56 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Cebuella pygmaea (pygmy marmoset)[5]
Myocastor coypus (nutria)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Adoratopsylla intermedia intermedia[7]
Ctenocephalides felis felis[7]

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
♦ 5Callithrix pygmaea, Wendy R. Townsend, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 665, pp. 1–6 (2001)
♦ 6Myocastor coypus, Charles A. Woods, Luis Contreras, Gale Willner-Chapman, and Howard P. Whidden, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 398, pp. 1-8 (1992)
♦ 7International Flea Database
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