Additional records: Matamoros (Goldman, 1946:234); Zamorina (Hooper, 1953:4).
Felis onca veraecrucis Nelson and Goldman
Jaguar
1933. Felis onca veraecrucis Nelson and Goldman, Jour. Mamm., 14:236, August 17, type from San Andrés Tuxtla, Veracruz.
Distribution in Tamaulipas.—Originally all of state; now restricted to sparsely populated areas.
Only one cranium, from the Sierra de Tamaulipas, was examined. It is in good condition but lacks all the teeth except P3 and P4 on the right side. The measurements are larger than those given by Goodwin (1954:15) for a skull from five miles north of Gómez Farías.
Measurements.—The cranium, sex undetermined, from the Sierra de Tamaulipas, affords measurements as follows: greatest length, 238.0; condylobasal length, 204.0; zygomatic breadth, 166.0; breadth of rostrum, 66.1; interorbital constriction, 48.2; mastoid breadth, 100.7; crown length of carnassial, 24.1.
Records of occurrence.—One specimen examined from Sierra de Tamaulipas, 2 mi. S, 10 mi. W Piedra.
Additional records: between Aldama and Soto la Marina (Nelson and Goldman, 1933:237); 5 km. N Gómez Farías (Goodwin, 1954:15).
Felis pardalis albescens Pucheran
Ocelot
1855. Felis albescens Pucheran, in I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Mammiferes, in Petit-Thoaurs, Voyage autor du monde sur ... la Venus ..., Zoologie, p. 149, type locality, Arkansas.