Tigrillo, the diminutive for tiger, is how local people refer to the Leopar-dus sp. The common name, jaguar, is derived from the South American Indian name jaguara, mea-ning, according to Liais (1872), 'carni-vore that overcomes its prey at a single bound'. Jaguars have been called tigres since they were seen for the first time by the Spanish conquistadors, who had the Asiatic tiger Panthera tig-ris as their reference from the old world however, early naturalists realized this and at first named the jaguar onca Linné (Goldman 1932). It comes from the word tigre, which in Spanish means tiger. The tigrillos are part of a guild of three species of spotted cats commonly and collectively called this way by locals. Here we detail how these operated and discuss the signifi-cant implications for conservation. The tigrilladas is the name is given to the hunting missions that used to go after jaguars and tigrillos to cater for this fashion craze. The cat skin boom of the 1960s and 1970s is well known, but details of how these skins were produced remain obscure. tigrinus -are the four spotted cat species indigenous to the Colombian Amazon basin. T he jaguar Panthera onca and the tigrillos, -the ocelot Leo-pardus pardalis, the margay L.
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