A wild cat of South America’s Pampa grasslands. At Saicã in southern Brazil, a normally colored individual and a black-coated male were photographed in 2021.
Adult female specimen 884, described in 1961, had a mixture of orange-yellow and black fur, darker along the middle of the back. Dark flank spots formed lines, and black spots ran lengthwise on the belly.
At 10:45 on 8 July 2021, a black-coated male was photographed by a camera at the edge of a swamp called Laguna in Saicã, southern Brazil. A normally colored individual had been recorded in the same area on 27 May that year.
A melanistic male was photographed at Saicã in southern Brazil in July 2021. A standard-coloured individual had also been recorded in the same area that May.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.