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Felis pardalis

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Translingual

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An ocelot (Felis pardalis) lying down
An ocelot (Felis pardalis) lying down in a tree

Etymology

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Coined by Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus in 1758. Displaced by Leopardus pardalis.

Proper noun

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Felis pardalis f (obsolete)

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Felidae – the ocelot, now Leopardus pardalis.

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