Back قط نمري (جنس) Arabic قط نمرى (جنس من الثدييات) ARZ Rancol (Leopardus) AVK Pələng pişiyi Azerbaijani پلنگ پیشیکلری AZB Южноамерикански котки Bulgarian Leopardus Breton Leopardus Catalan Leopardus CEB Leopardus Czech
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| Leopardus species from top-left, clockwise: ocelot (L. pardalis), oncilla (L. tigrinus), Pampas cat (L. colocola), kodkod (L. guigna), margay (L. wiedii), Geoffroy's cat (L. geoffroyi) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Leopardus Gray, 1842 |
| Type species | |
| Leopardus griseus Gray, 1842
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| Leopardus distribution | |
Leopardus is a genus comprising eight species of small cats native to the Americas.[3] This genus is considered the oldest branch of a genetic lineage of small cats in the Americas whose common ancestor crossed the Bering land bridge from Asia to North America in the late Miocene.[4]
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