What is Leopardus?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Leopardus'' | image = Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)-8.jpg | image_width = | image_caption = [[Ocelot]], ''Leopardus pardalis'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] | classis = [[Mammal]]ia | ordo = [[Carnivora]] | familia = [[Felidae]] | subfamilia = [[Felinae]] | genus = '''''Leopardus''''' | genus_authority = [[John Edward Gray|Gray]], 1842 | range_map = Leopardus range.png | range_map_alt = Leopardus range map | range_map_caption = ''Leopardus'' diversity | subdivision_ranks = [[Species]] | subdivision = See text }} '''''Leopardus''''' is a [[genus]] of small spotted cats that are native to Middle and [[South America]]. Very few species belonging to ''Leopardus'' are in the southern [[United States]]. ''Leopardus'' may be the oldest branch of the [[Felinae]] to go into the [[Americas]], followed by the genera ''[[Lynx]]'' and ''[[Puma (genus)|Puma]]''. ==Species== * ''[[Colocolo|Leopardus colocolo]]'' <small>([[Juan Ignacio Molina|Molina]], 1782)</small> &ndash; Colocolo * ''[[Pantanal cat|Leopardus braccatus]]'' <small>([[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1889)</small> &ndash; Pantanal Cat * ''[[Pampas cat|Leopardus pajeros]]'' <small>([[Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest|Desmarest]], 1816)</small> &ndash; Pampas Cat * ''[[Geoffroy's cat|Leopardus geoffroyi]]'' <small>([[Alcide d'Orbigny|d'Orbigny]] & [[Paul Gervais|Gervais]], 1844)</small> &ndash; Geoffroy's cat * ''[[Kodkod|Leopardus guigna]]'' <small>(Molina, 1782)</small> &ndash; Kodkod * ''[[Andean Mountain cat|Leopardus jacobitus]]'' <small>([[Emilio Cornalia|Cornalia]], 1865)</small> &ndash; Andean Mountain cat * ''[[Ocelot|Leopardus pardalis]]'' <small>([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758)</small> &ndash; Ocelot * ''[[Oncilla|Leopardus tigrinus]]'' <small>([[Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber|Schreber]], 1775)</small> &ndash; Oncilla * ''[[Margay|Leopardus wiedii]]'' <small>([[Heinrich Rudolf Schinz|Schinz]], 1821)</small> &ndash; Margay {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Felines]]