Leopardus wiedii cooperi Goldman, 1943
Nuevo Leon margay (proposed), Texas margay
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Not recognized as a valid subspecies by (de Oliveira, 1998:1).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)?
Last record: 1850's
Distribution
Nuevo Leon, México
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from the holotype, an adult male, collected by a Col. S. Cooper after whom Goldman named the subspecies (Goldman, 1943).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Goldman, E. A. (1943). The races of the ocelot and margay in middle America. Journal of Mammalogy 24(3): 372-385.
Other references:
Ceballos, G. (2014). Mammals of Mexico. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Kitchener A. C., Breitenmoser-Würsten Ch., Eizirik E., Gentry A., Werdelin L., Wilting A., Yamaguchi N., Abramov A. V., Christiansen P., Driscoll
C., Duckworth J. W., Johnson W., Luo S.-J., Meijaard E., O’Donoghue P., Sanderson J., Seymour K., Bruford M., Groves C., Hoffmann M.,
Nowell K., Timmons Z. & Tobe S. 2017. A revised taxonomy of the Felidae. The final report of the Cat Classification Task Force of the IUCN/
SSC Cat Specialist Group. Cat News Special Issue 11, 80 pp.
de Oliveira, Tadeu G. (1998). Leopardus wiedii. Mammalian Species 579: 1-6, 3 figs.
Tewes, M. E. and Schmidly, D. J. (1987). The neotropical felids: jaguar, ocelot, margay, and jaguarundi, pp. 696-711. In: M. Novak, J. A. Baker, M. E. Obbard and B. Malloch (eds.). Wild furbearer management and conservation in North America. Ontario, Canada: Ministry of Natural Resources.