New records of the Endangered Andean mountain cat in northern Argentina

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Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 374-377

  Perovic, Pablo ^a,c   Walker, Susan ^b,c   Novaro, Andrés ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^b basado en Centro de Ecologia Aplicada del Neuquen   (Argentina)

^c Committee for the Coservation of the Andean Cat ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Altoandino; Andean mountain cat; Argentina; Oncifelis colocolo; Oreailurus jacobita; Pampas cat; Puna

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; NEW RECORD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

FELIDAE; FELIS; ONCIFELIS COLOCOLO; OREAILURUS JACOBITA; PUNA;

EID: 31344468822     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605303000644     Document Type: Article

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