虎貓屬

虎貓屬（學名：Leopardus^[1]）是由生長於北美和南美的小型花紋貓科動物所組成的屬。

虎貓屬 化石時期：上新世-現代，3–0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ▼
科學分類
界：	動物界 Animalia
門：	脊索動物門 Chordata
綱：	哺乳綱 Mammalia
目：	食肉目 Carnivora
科：	貓科 Felidae
演化級：	假貓級 Pseudaelurus
亞科：	貓亞科 Felinae
屬：	虎貓屬 Leopardus Gray, 1842
種
參見內文
異名
Colocolo Pocock, 1941 Dendrailurus Severtzov, 1858 Lynchaelurus Elliot, 1904 Lynchailurus Severtzov, 1858 Montifelis Schwangart, 1941 Mungofelis Antonius, 1933 Noctifelis Severtzov, 1858 Oncifelis Severtzov, 1858 Oncilla Allen, 1919 Oreailurus Cabrera, 1940 Pajeros Gray, 1867 Pardalis Gray, 1867 Pseudolynx Schwangart, 1941 Severtzowius Kretzoi & Kretzoi, 2000

下屬物種

本屬包括以下物種：^[2]

• Felis vorohuensis (Berta, 1983)
• Leopardus braccatus (Cope, 1889)
• 南美草原貓 Leopardus colocolo (Molina, 1782)
• Leopardus ellioti Gray, 1842
• 喬氏貓 Leopardus geoffroyi (d'Orbigny & Gervais, 1844)
• 南美林貓 Leopardus guigna (Molina, 1782)
• 南方虎貓 Leopardus guttulus (Hensel, 1872)
• Leopardus hernandesii Gray, 1857
• 山原貓 Leopardus jacobitus (Cornalia, 1865)
• Leopardus japonensis Gray, 1862
• 納里尼奧貓 Leopardus narinensis Ruiz-García, 2023^[3]
• 潘帕斯貓 Leopardus pajeros (Desmarest, 1816)
• 虎貓 Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Leopardus pardinoides ^[4]
• Leopardus perniger Gray, 1863
• Leopardus pictus Gray, 1842
• Leopardus poliopardus Brehm, 1863
• 小斑虎貓 Leopardus tigrinus (Schreber, 1775)
• 長尾虎貓 Leopardus wiedii (Schinz, 1821)

參考文獻

1. Wozencraft, W.C. Order Carnivora. Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (編). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005: 537–540. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. LCCN 2005001870. OCLC 62265494. NLC 001238428.
2. Leopardus Gray, 1842. GBIF. [2023-08-03]. （原始內容存檔於2023-07-12）.
3. Manuel Ruiz-García, Myreya Pinedo-Castro and Joseph Mark Shostell. 2023. Morphological and Genetics Support for a Hitherto Undescribed Spotted Cat Species (Genus Leopardus; Felidae, Carnivora) from the Southern Colombian Andes. Genes. 14(6); 1266. DOI: 10.3390/genes14061266
4. Tadeu G. de Oliveira, Lester A. Fox-Rosales, José D. Ramírez-Fernández, Juan C. Cepeda-Duque, Rebecca Zug, Catalina Sanchez-Lalinde, Marcelo J. R. Oliveira, Paulo H. D. Marinho, Alejandra Bonilla-Sánchez, Mara C. Marques, Katia Cassaro, Ricardo Moreno, Damián Rumiz, Felipe B. Peters, Josué Ortega, Gitana Cavalcanti, Michael S. Mooring, Steven R. Blankenship, Esteban Brenes-Mora, Douglas Dias, Fábio D. Mazim, Eduardo Eizirik, Jaime L. Diehl, Rosane V. Marques, …Flávio H. G. Rodrigues. 2024. Ecological Modeling, Biogeography, and Phenotypic Analyses setting the Tiger Cats』 Hyperdimensional Niches reveal A New Species. Scientific Reports. 14: 2395. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-52379-8