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1951. Herpestes auropunctatus auropunctatus Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 

 Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946, Publ. Brit. Mus. 

 (Nat. Hist.) , p. 295, Nov. 19, 1951. 



Type Locality. — Nepal. Introduced and widely established in the West Indies. 



Family Felidae (cats) 



Genus FELIS 1 Linnaeus 



1857. Felis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 41. (Type by tau- 

 tonymy, Felis catus Linnaeus.) 



pardus — group 5 (jaguars) 



Felis onca centralis Mearnsf * 



1901. Felis centralis Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 14, p. 139, 



Aug. 9, 1901. 

 1910. Felis onca centralis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, vol. 28, 



p. 127, Apr. 30, 1910. 

 1939. Panthera onca centralis Pocock, Nov. Zool., vol. 41, No. 4, p. 419, Oct. 



31, 1939. 

 Type Locality. — Talamanca, Limon, Costa Rica (probably near Sipurio, in the 

 valley of Rio Sixaola) . Range. — Central America north to El Salvador and along 

 Pacific coast probably to near Isthmus of Tehuantepec; south to Guaduas, 

 Cundinamarca, Colombia. 



Felis onca goldmani Mearnsf * 



1901. Felis hernandesii goldmani Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 



14, p. 142, Aug. 9, 1901. 

 1932. Felis onca goldmani Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 45, 



p. 144, Sept. 9, 1932. 

 1939. Panthera onca goldmani Pocock, Nov. Zool., vol. 41, No. 4, p. 421, 



Oct. 31, 1939. 

 Type Locality. — Yohaltun, Campeche, Mexico. Range. — The Peninsula of 

 Yucatan, south to northern Guatemala; and recorded at Punta Gorda, British 

 Honduras (Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. Hist. Mus. Publ. 670, 

 vol. 31, p. 564, July 10, 1951). 



Felis onca hernandesii (Gray) * 



1858. Leopardus hernandesii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1857, pt. 25, 

 p. 278, Jan. 28, 1858. 



1884. Felis onca True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 ( App., Circ. 29) , p. 610, 



Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1901. Felis hernandesii Mearns, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 14, p. 141, 



Aug. 9, 1901. 



4 The species are arranged according to the groups recognized by Cabrera, Revista Chilena 

 Hist. Nat., vol. 15, pp. 41-42, February 1911. On this subject see also Pocock, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 20, pp. 329-350, November 1917; and J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 41, pp. 335-340, Sept. 22, 1919, and pp. 341-419, Oct. 3, 1919. 



5 The genus Panthera of Pocock. Revised by Nelson and Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 14, 

 No. 3, pp. 221-240, Aug. 17, 1933. Reviewed (under name Panthera) by Pocock, Nov. Zool., 

 vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 406-422, Oct. 31, 1939. 



