Global InformationLeopardus narinensis information
| Red tigrina | |
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| The holotype specimen (right) beside a tigrina specimen (left) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Leopardus |
| Species: | L. narinensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Leopardus narinensis Ruiz-García et al., 2023
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Leopardus narinensis, also called the red tigrina, Nariño cat, and Galeras cat by the scientists who discovered it, is a putative species of small wild cat in the genus Leopardus. It was described in 2023, based on a single skin collected in 1989.[1]
- ^ Ruiz-García, Manuel; Pinedo-Castro, Myreya; Shostell, Joseph Mark (2023). "Morphological and Genetics Support for a Hitherto Undescribed Spotted Cat Species (Genus Leopardus; Felidae, Carnivora) from the Southern Colombian Andes". Genes. 14 (6): 1266. doi:10.3390/genes14061266. PMC 10298493. PMID 37372446.