Animals by Scientific Class Names

Leopardus wiedii,Margay

Features：The head is shorter, the tail and limbs are longer, and the spots on the tail are also different.

The long-tailed tiger cat (scientific name: Leopardus wiedii) is also known as Margay in foreign languages. It is a large tiger cat with 11 subspecies.The long-tailed tiger cat lives alone and is active at night. They are good tree climbers and can live their entire lives in trees, traversing them t...

Leopardus pardalis,Ocelot

Features：The body is uniform, the limbs are medium-length, and the body is dotted with black spots and dark brown rectangular patches surrounded by black edges.

Ocelot (scientific name: Leopardus pardalis) is also known as Ocelot in English. There are 10 subspecies.Ocelots are mostly active at night and are territorial. Their hunting methods are similar to those of most cats. They are also good at swimming and climbing trees. However, their climbing skills...

Scandentia,Sino-Burmese tree shrew, Northern tree shrew

Features：Can produce 8 different sounds for alarm, attention, contact and defense.

Tree shrews are highly adaptable and are distributed from low altitude areas close to sea level to plateaus at an altitude of about 3,000 meters. They live in a variety of habitats such as deciduous forests, evergreen broad-leaved forests, tropical rainforests and limestone, and can also use seconda...

Procyon lotor,Raccoon, Food Thief, Pippi Bear

Features：The most distinctive feature of a raccoon is the black area around its eyes, commonly known as "eye circles", which contrasts sharply with the surrounding white face color.

Raccoon, Procyon lotor (Linnaeus 1758), is a species of animal in the genus Procyon, family Procyonidae, order Carnivora, class Mammalia, native to North America, and now a species of least concern. Because it often preys on fish by the river and washes its food in the water, it is named raccoon.Rac...

Leopardus tigrinus,Oncilla

Features：It is the smallest species in the genus Ocelot

The Oncilla (scientific name: Leopardus tigrinus) has three subspecies. It is one of the smallest wild cats in South America and the smallest in the genus Oncilla. It is very similar to the Oncilla in all other aspects. The all-black Oncilla accounts for about 1/5 of the total number.The tabby cat i...

Podiceps cristatus,Langlibai, Langhuaer, Langli, Shui Laogua, Shui donkey

Features：The largest grebe has a prominent dark crest.

The Crested Grebe is a summer bird that lives from the northeast to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and winters in most areas south of the Yangtze River. During the breeding season, it has complex courtship behaviors, with male and female individuals performing a ritualized "dance" on the water...

Oncifelis guigna,Kodkod,South American Lincat

Features：It is the smallest cat in America, about the same size as a house cat, or perhaps smaller.

The South American tiger cat (scientific name: Oncifelis guigna) is also known as Kodkod in English. It is the smallest cat in America and has two subspecies.The South American tiger cat is mainly single and territorial. Its hunting style is similar to that of most cats. It is good at climbing and i...

Tachybaptus ruficollis,Oil duck, water hyacinth, oil gourd, turtle duck

Features：It has yellow eyes and is proficient in swimming and diving.

The small grebe (pì) is a species of the genus Small grebe of the family Gruidae. Because of its short and round body shape, it floats on the water like a gourd, so it is also called water hyacinth. It breeds and hibernates in slow-flowing lakes, ponds, swamps and rivers, often moving alone or in p...

Leopardus geoffroyi,Geoffroy's Cat,Joe's cat, clouded leopard, fishing leopard

Features：Both the southern and northern Joe's ocelots have beautiful patterns.

Geoffroy's Cat (scientific name: Leopardus geoffroyi) is called Geoffroy's Cat in foreign language. There are 5 subspecies.Geoffroy's Cat is a solitary and secretive nocturnal walker, and it will come out at dawn and dusk. It is a typical arboreal animal, and often looks for food on the...

Ladakh pika

Features：The type locality of this species is Ladakh, Kashmir.

The taxonomic status of the Ladakh pika is relatively stable. However, due to the small number of specimens, the research is not in-depth, and the ecological research is almost blank. Therefore, it is a species that is little known. From the distribution habitat, its habitat is a hilly plateau surfa...

Leopardus colocolo,Pampas Cat,South American savannah cat, savannah cat

Features：There is a long mane on the back up to 7 cm long

Pampas Cat (scientific name: Leopardus colocolo) is also known as Pampas Cat, with 8 subspecies.Pampas Cat is mainly active at night, is an expert climber, very ferocious, and very agile. It mainly preys on small mammals, mainly rodents and guinea pigs, but also catches ground-dwelling birds and eve...

Herpailurus yaguarondi

Features：The fur has no spots and is very uniform in color, ranging from black to brownish gray (gray scale), or from fox red to chestnut (red scale).

The slender-waisted cat (scientific name: Herpailurus yaguarondi) is also known as Jaguarundi and Eyra Cat in foreign languages. There is only one species in this genus, namely the slender-waisted cat. It is a medium-sized wild cat. In some Spanish-speaking countries, the slender-waisted cat is also...

Puma concolor,Puma、Mountain Lion,Mountain lion, golden cat, pounce horse

Features：It is about the same size as a leopard, but has no markings and a smaller skull.

Puma (scientific name: Puma concolor) is also known as Puma or Mountain Lion in foreign languages. It is an animal of the class Mammalia, family Felidae, and genus Cat. Based on the classical genetic analysis by Culver et al., 32 subspecies have been identified and described. In 2000, it was suggest...

Caracal aurata,Profelis aurata,African Golden Cat,

Features：The fur color varies, and the limbs and the inside of the abdomen are often dotted with spots, and some even have spots all over the body.

African Caracal (scientific name: Caracal aurata, synonymous scientific name Profelis aurata) is called African Golden Cat in foreign language. It is a medium-sized wild cat with 2 subspecies.In Africa, African Caracal was once named African Golden Cat. They are considered "sons of leopards&quo...

Catopuma badia,Borneo Bay Cat,Chestnut cat

Features：Smaller than the Asian golden cat, its fur is usually reddish brown, but there are also a few gray variants.

Borneo Golden Cat (scientific name: Catopuma badia) is also known as Borneo Bay Cat in foreign languages. It has no subspecies.In 2006, Johnson and Eizirik et al. studied the Bornean golden cat together with the Asian golden cat and clouded cat of the same genus, and determined that the Bornean gold...

Felis iriomotensis(P.b.iriomotensis,Iriomote cat

Features：The cat's paw is bigger than that of an average cat, and its tail is also very thick.

The Iriomote cat, scientific name Felis iriomotensis (P.b.iriomotensis), is a subspecies endemic to Okinawa, Japan. In the local dialect, the Iriomote cat is called "Yamamaya" (cat in the mountains), "Pingumaaya" (cat that escaped) and "Yamapicalaya", which shows that t...

Prionailurus planiceps,Flat-headed Cat,Flat head cat

Features：Slightly long skull, flat top, short limbs, short and round ears

Flat-headed Cat (scientific name: Prionailurus planiceps), also known as Flat-headed Cat, or simply Flat-headed Cat, is a small wild cat with no subspecies.Flat-headed ocelots appear at dusk and dawn, and hunt at night or dawn. They mainly prey on frogs, fish and crustaceans, and also catch rats and...

Prionailurus rubiginosus,Rusty-spotted Cat,Rusty Cat

Features：It is one of the smallest species in the cat family.

Rusty-spotted cat (scientific name: Prionailurus rubiginosus), also known as Rusty-spotted Cat, or simply Rusty-spotted cat, is a very small wild cat with two subspecies.Rusty-spotted cats are small, agile, and active. They are nocturnal animals. They mostly sleep in their dens during the day and co...

Cymric,Long-haired Manx cat, Welsh cat

Features：Since the hind legs are longer than the front legs, the jumping-like walking posture is very cute

The Cymric cat is also called the long-haired Manx cat. It is a long-haired variant of the Manx cat. Like the Manx cat, it is tailless. It is a long-haired cat without a tail. The Cymric cat is not from Wales, nor is it from the UK like the Manx cat. It was first bred in Canada in 1960, and a short-...

Turkish Angora,Turkish Angora cat

Features：The Angora cat is slender, with a long and pointed head and large ears. The white Angora cat is the purest.

The Ankara cat, also known as the Turkish Angora cat, is one of the oldest long-haired cat breeds and was named after the capital of Turkey. Ankara's old name - Angola. Its origin dates back to the 16th century, making it the oldest long-haired cat breed. Since its introduction to Europe, its no...

Himalayan

Features：Has Siamese-like spots and Persian-like blue eyes

The Himalayan cat is named because it looks very similar to the rabbit with this name, and has nothing to do with the Himalayas. The breeding of Himalayan cats can be traced back to 1924, when a Swedish geneticist crossed Siamese cats, Burmese cats and Persian cats, but did not get obvious results....