Pantanal cat

noun

Any member of the species Leopardus braccatus (sometimes subspecies Leopardus colocola braccatus) of cats of tropical South America.

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nounPantanal cat (plural Pantanal cats)

plural Pantanal cats

  1. Any member of the species Leopardus braccatus (sometimes subspecies Leopardus colocola braccatus) of cats of tropical South America.

    The Pampas cat was distinguished as its own species in 2005, along with the Pantanal cat (Leopardus braccatus), but taxonomists still disagree about whether there is enough biological difference to validate the move.

    2010, Scott Stevenson, Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running, O'Reilly, page 397
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