Jaguarundi | |
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Conservation status
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Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Faimily: | Felidae |
Genus: | Herpailurus |
Species: | H. yagouaroundi[1] |
Binomial name | |
Herpailurus yagouaroundi[1] (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)
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Distribution o the Jaguarundi, 2015[2] | |
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Speshies synonymy
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The jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi syn. Herpailurus yagouaroundi), cried eyra cat an aa, is a smaa-sized wild cat native tae Central an Sooth Americae. In 2002, the IUCN classified the jaguarundi as 'Least Concern', altho thay considered it likely that na conservation units beyond the megareserves o the Amazon basin could sustain lang-term viable populations. It is probably extinct in Texas. Its presence in Uruguay is uncertain.[2]
In some Spainyie-speakin kintras, the jaguarundi is cried gato colorado, gato moro, león brenero, onza, tigrillo, an leoncillo an aa.[2] The Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation o its common Inglis an Portuguese name is IPA: [ʒɐgwɐɾũˈdʒi]. It is cried gato-mourisco, eirá, gato-preto, an maracajá-preto an aa in Portuguese. Jaguarundi comes frae Auld Tupi yawaum'di.[3]