Table 1.
Extinction risk for each species used in this study, according to CITES and IUCN.
Table 2.
Samples of feces collected from captive felids.
Fig 1.
Example of coloration and banding patterns from guard hairs of Neotropical felids.
Fig 2.
Example of preparation for scale-pattern analysis, in the shaft region, for a guard hair of L. pardalis.
Fig 3.
Cuticle scale patterns on the shaft of guard hairs of selected Neotropical felids.
(a) regular wavy pattern; (b) irregular wavy pattern; (c) irregular wavy pattern with ornamented edges.
Fig 4.
Medullar patterns on guard hairs of selected Neotropical felids.
(a) absent; (b) fragmented; (c) continuous with filaments; (d) trabecular; (e) uniseriate ladder; (f) deeply pigmented continuous; (g) diagonal uniseriate; (h) small squares.
Fig 5.
Guard hairs, color and banding patterns in P. concolor.
Fig 6.
Guard hairs representation predominantly in yellow and black.
Fig 7.
Guard hairs, color and banding patterns of L. colocolo.
Fig 8.
Guard hairs, color and banding patterns of P. yagouaroundi.
Fig 9.
Scales, typical pattern in shield region of P. onca.
Fig 10.
Medulla, typical pattern in shield region, in guard hairs of L. tigrinus.
Fig 11.
Medulla, typical pattern in shaft region from guard hairs of L. tigrinus.
Fig 12.
Medulla, typical pattern in shield region from guard hairs of L. geoffroyi.
Fig 13.
Medulla, typical pattern in shaft region from guard hairs of L. geoffroyi.
Fig 14.
Medulla, typical pattern in shield region from guard hairs of L. wiedii.
Fig 15.
Medulla, typical pattern in shaft region from guard hairs of L. wiedii.
Fig 16.
Medulla, typical pattern in shield region from guard hairs of L. pardalis.
Fig 17.
Medulla, typical pattern in shaft region from guard hairs of L. pardalis.
Table 3.
Results of blind tests of hair identification key.
Table 4.
Species confused with each other in the tests of the key.
Table 5.
Number of samples used for molecular blind-test. All tests were successful.