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| Gardner, A.L. | |
| Notes on the little spotted cat, _Felis tigrina oncilla_ Thomas, in Costa Rica | |
| 1971 Journal of Mammalogy (52): 484-485 | |
According to Cabrera (Rev. Mus. Agentino Ciencias Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia," Cien Zool, 4:285, 1937), four geographic populations of small spotted tropical American cats with normal nape-hairs comprise the species Felis tigrina Schreber, 1977. Felis tigrina oncilla Thomas, the Central American subspecies, has heretofore been represented by only two specimens, both from Costa Rica. The holotype, in the British Museum (Natural History) (BM 78.7.6.3) is a skin without skull described by Thomas (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. 7, 12:237-238, 1903) as a subspecies of Felis paradinoides Gray, 1867, and was collected on Volcain Irazu. The second specimen, in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 19211) is an adult female from Pozo Azul, and was the basis of J.A Allen's (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, 20:47-18, 1904) description of felis carrikeri, Allen (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, 41:358, 1919) designated Felis pardinoides oncilla Thomas as the type species of Oncilla in which he included all of the small spotted cats with normal nape-hairs. Therefore Oncilla Allen equais F tigrina Schreber (sensu Cabrera, loc. Cit). In the same paper (p.359) Allen also concluded that F carrikeri was a melanistic F parainoides and included it in the synonymy of Oncilla pardinoides oncilla. |
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