Clouded leopard
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The clouded leopard, also called mainland clouded leopard, is a wild cat that has large dusky-grey blotches and irregular spots and stripes reminiscent of clouds. Its head-and-body length ranges from
Neofelis nebulosa, Clouded leopard
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Clouded leopard at Aizawl, Mizoram, India
Neofelis
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Neofelis is a genus comprising two extant species of cat in Southeast Asia: the clouded leopard of mainland Asia, and the Sunda clouded leopard of Sumatra and Borneo.
Clouded leopard
…was a clouded leopard specimen from Nepal. Felis brachyura proposed by Robert Swinhoe in 1862 was a clouded leopard skin from Taiwan. The generic name Neofelis was proposed by John Edward Gray in 1867 who subordinated all three to this genus. At present, N. nebulosa is considered a monotypic species due to…
Formosan clouded leopard painted by Joseph Wolf in 1862