Journal of Threatened Taxa | www.threatenedtaxa.org | 26 January 2026 | 18(1): 28223–28234

 

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https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.10168.18.1.28223-28234   

#10168 | Received 18 September 2025 | Final received 30 December 2025 | Finally accepted 09 January 2026

 

 

Historical records of the Jaguar Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil

 

Jackson Fábio Preuss 1  & Pedro Henrique Amancio Padilha 2        

 

1 Wildlife Studies Center (NEVS), University of the West of Santa Catarina (UNOESC), São Miguel do Oeste, 89900-000, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

2 University of the Educational Society of Santa Catarina (UNISOCIESC), Joinville, 89206-101, State of Santa Catarina, Brazil.

1 jackson_preuss@yahoo.com.br (corresponding author), 2 pedroamancio2002@gmail.com

 

 

 

Editor: Angie Appel, Wild Cat Network, Germany.         Date of publication: 26 January 2026 (online & print)

 

Citation: Preuss, J.F. & P.H.A. Padilha (2026). Historical records of the Jaguar Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Journal of Threatened Taxa 18(1): 28223–28234. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.10168.18.1.28223-28234

  

Copyright: © Preuss & Padilha 2026. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. JoTT allows unrestricted use, reproduction, and distribution of this article in any medium by providing adequate credit to the author(s) and the source of publication.

 

Funding: This study did not receive specific funding from any external agency.

 

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

 

Author details: Dr. Jackson Fábio Preuss is a biologist, professor, and researcher at the Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (UNOESC), Brazil. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences, a master’s degree in environmental sciences with emphasis on biodiversity and sustainability, and a PhD in biology with specialization in wildlife diversity and management. His research focuses on wildlife conservation, biodiversity, and ecosystem health in tropical environments. He leads the Wildlife Studies Center (Núcleo de Estudos em Vida Selvagem - NEVS) at UNOESC, has served as an ad hoc expert for the Environmental Military Police of Santa Catarina since 2010, and is actively involved in environmental advisory boards and science communication initiatives related to biodiversity conservation. Pedro Henrique Amancio Padilha is a veterinary medicine student at the Universidade Sociedade Educacional de Santa Catarina (UNISOCIESC), Brazil. Presently, he is the vice-president of the Wild Animal Studies Group (Grupo de Estudos de Animais Silvestres - GEAS) at UNISOCIESC university, having worked with exotic pets and wild animals at clinics and rehabilitation centers.

 

Author contributions: JFP: conception of the study; collection and analysis of historical records; photographic survey; preparation of maps and figures; drafting and final revision of the manuscript. PHAP: collection and organization of historical records; photographic survey; preparation of maps and figures; contribution to the drafting and revision of the manuscript.

 

Acknowledgements: We thank all individuals and institutions who contributed decisively to the completion of this study by providing access to historical information, photographic material, and museum records of Jaguars in Santa Catarina. We are especially grateful to the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional; Museu Frei Miguel; Museu Almiro Theobaldo Müller; Fundação e Casa da Cultura; and the newspaper A Notícia for granting access to archival and museum collections. We also thank Ligmar Raeder, Walter Neves, Maria Vizentainer, the Ross family, Alfredo Kath, Lauro Steffen, the Biazzi family, Adilson José Brugnara, Orquiso Rei de Oliveira and the Goelzer family for sharing valuable information and personal collections. Their assistance in locating, documenting, and interpreting historical records was fundamental for the development of this work.

 

 

 

Abstract: We compiled and analysed 16 historical photographic records of the Jaguar Panthera onca in the state of Santa Catarina before 1985, most of which have not been published in scientific literature. These records obtained from personal collections, newspapers, and public institutions cover more than a century and reveal a broad geographic distribution of the Jaguar in the state prior to its possible local extinction. The greatest concentration of records was registered in the extreme west and west of Santa Catarina (56.25%), followed by Itajaí Valley and northern plateau (25%), northeastern (12.5%), and the southern highlands (6.25%). Eight records are located less than 150 km off the Argentinian border. Thirteen records represent hunted individuals and three individuals were captured alive. The localities with records include Joinville, Corupá, Blumenau, Itapiranga, Fraiburgo, Taió, Sul Brasil, Guaraciaba, Paraíso, Anchieta, Cunha Porã, Urubici, and Campo Erê. The latter, registered in 1984, represents the most recent evidence of the Jaguar in the state. Our compilation provides a new historical base on the distribution of the Jaguar in Santa Catarina, suggesting that hunting, associated with habitat loss and fragmentation and reduction of natural prey, played a significant role in the Jaguar’s likely extinction in the state.

 

Keywords: Geographic distribution, hotographic records, Itajaí Valley, north-east, west of Santa Catarina.

 

Resumo: Compilamos e analisamos 16 registros fotográficos históricos de onças-pintadas Panthera onca no estado de Santa Catarina anteriores a 1985, sendo a maioria inéditos na literatura científica. Esses registros, obtidos por meio de acervos pessoais, jornais e instituições públicas, abrangem mais de um século e revelam uma ampla distribuição geográfica da espécie no estado, antes de sua provável extinção local. A maior concentração de ocorrências foi registrada no extremo oeste e Oeste Catarinense (56,25%), seguido do Vale do Itajaí e Planalto Norte (25%), nordeste Catarinense (12,5%) e Planalto Serrano (6,25%). Oito registros localizam-se a menos de 150 km da fronteira com a Argentina. Treze registros correspondem a animais abatidos, e três a indivíduos capturados vivos. As localidades com registros incluem Joinville, Corupá, Blumenau, Itapiranga, Fraiburgo, Taió, Sul Brasil, Guaraciaba, Paraíso, Anchieta, Cunha Porã, Urubici e Campo Erê. Este último, registrado em 1984, representa o dado mais recente confirmado da espécie no estado. Os resultados fornecem uma base histórica inédita sobre a distribuição da onça-pintada em Santa Catarina e sugerem que a caça predatória, associada à perda e fragmentação de habitat e à redução de presas naturais, desempenhou papel central na possível extinção dessa espécie no estado.

 

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

The Jaguar Panthera onca is the largest felid in the Americas and the third largest in the world (Seymour 1989). As a top predator, it plays a key ecological role in maintaining ecosystem balance by regulating prey populations (Dalerum et al. 2008). Despite its ecological importance and cultural relevance, it faces persistent conservation challenges, largely driven by conflicts with humans (Hofstatter & Oliveira 2020).

Over the last century, the Jaguar has disappeared from extensive portions of its historical range (Sanderson et al. 2002). Historically distributed from the southern United States to northern Argentina, it now occurs in roughly half of its original range, having undergone an estimated 49% population decline over the past 50 years (Seymour 1989; Sanderson et al. 2002; Zeller 2007). The Jaguar is extinct in El Salvador, the United States, and Uruguay, with remaining populations occurring from northern Mexico to northern Argentina (Quigley et al. 2017). It is currently listed as ‘Near Threatened’ on the IUCN Red List (Quigley et al. 2017) and as Vulnerable in the Brazilian Red List (Ministério do Meio Ambiente 2022).

In Brazil, the Jaguar occurs across all major biomes except the Pampas, where the last known individual was killed in 1952, resulting in the species’ extirpation in that region (Peters et al. 2016; Morato et al. 2018). The most viable Brazilian populations today persist in the Pantanal and the Amazon (Silveira & Crawshaw 2008; Cavalcanti et al. 2012; Oliveira et al. 2012). In contrast, the Atlantic Forest, one of the world’s most threatened biomes, retains approximately 11% of its original cover (Ribeiro et al. 2009). And only 10.32% of its landscape is considered to provide suitable habitat for the Jaguar. In this biome, it is classified as Endangered, with an effective population size estimated at fewer than 250 individuals (Ferraz et al. 2012; Morato et al. 2013).

Multiple anthropogenic pressures have contributed to the Jaguar’s decline in Brazil since the early 1900s, including habitat loss caused by logging, agricultural expansion, and urbanisation (Morato et al. 2016), poaching, retaliatory killing following livestock predation (Hoogesteijn et al. 1993; Nowell & Jackson 1996), reductions in prey availability (Foster et al. 2016), and broader human-wildlife negative interactions (Murray et al. 1999; Zimmermann et al. 2005; Zeller 2007). These stressors, combined with ecological disruption and increased exposure to pathogens, pose additional risks to already vulnerable populations (Murray et al. 1999; Furtado & Filoni 2008).

In the state of Santa Catarina, historical records of the Jaguar are scarce. Cherem et al. (2004) documented records in Brusque, Blumenau, Urubici, Campo Alegre, and Joinville. The last known records from the southernmost portion of the Atlantic Forest date between the 1960s and the 1990s (Mazzolli 2008). More recently, Fusco-Costa et al. (2022), based on extensive surveys in the Serra do Mar region of southern Brazil, expanded the modelled Jaguar range in the Atlantic Forest by 9% and suggested that forested areas in Santa Catarina may represent potential habitat. Nevertheless, its actual presence in the state remains uncertain, relying primarily on sporadic, unconfirmed observations in forest remnants of the Upper Itajaí Valley and Araucárias National Park. Many of these assumptions stem from records near the Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul borders, reinforcing the hypothesis that the Jaguar may have become extinct in Santa Catarina due to habitat loss and intensive hunting. The most recent threatened species list for Santa Catarina categorizes the Jaguar as Critically Endangered in the state (FATMA 2011).

Understanding Jaguar occurrence in Santa Catarina requires a comprehensive evaluation of historical evidence. Therefore, the objective of this study is to compile and review historical photographic records of the Jaguar to clarify its past distribution and assess factors that may have contributed to its decline and possible extirpation in the state.

 

Study area

The state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil (Figure 1) has an approximate area of 95,730 km² (IBGE 2024). Santa Catarina’s topography is characterized by a diversified relief, with elevated plateaus in the inland and a narrow coastal plain in the east. The western region is marked by hilly terrains and the presence of the Serra Geral Mountain Range, which influences the state’s climatic dynamics. These mountainous formations act as natural barriers, regulating airflow distribution and affecting precipitation patterns (Vibrans et al. 2010, 2012). Thus, the most elevated areas register the lowest temperatures and frequent rainfall, whereas the coast, influenced by the Atlantic Ocean humidity, presents a mild and humid climate throughout the year (Alvares et al. 2013). The elevation gradient also reflects in the vegetation, with tropical and subtropical forests in the lowlands, and Araucaria formations in the plateaus and highlands (Klein 1978; Vibrans et al. 2010, 2012).

 

MATERIALS AND METHODS

 

Historical records

We searched for historical photographs in non-indexed online newspapers and museum collections, and analysed personal reports followed by photos. After that, we elaborated a survey of Jaguars known to have been photographed or killed in the state of Santa Catarina.

The capture of a Jaguar in the state of Santa Catarina was frequently reported by many media outlets and shared as an attraction for long periods, thus helping our assessment. We found that the most useful words of search are: “Onça”, “Onça-pintada” (Jaguar), and “Tigre” (Tiger).

We only included Jaguars photographed in the state and omitted reports of individuals without photographic proof, animals possibly sighted, or rumours that they were wandering through the state, or any implausible records. When two or more records may cover the same individual, we adopted a conservative approach and counted both as a single record. For the historical records, we used the best available data and registered the location of these Jaguars in Figure 1 and Table 1. When mapping the individuals, we used the location and date of the photographs with a location on the map. We recognize the limitations associated with newspaper reports, verbal testimonies, and other unverified sources. However, we assert that the reports presented here constitute the most complete available survey about the historically documented presence of the Jaguar in the state of Santa Catarina.

All historical records were georeferenced based on the localities described in the primary sources, i.e., photographs, newspapers, and personal accounts. For rural sites or historical place names, we used current administrative boundaries and toponyms to approximate locations. Coordinates were obtained using Google Earth Pro. Because many sources lack precise spatial detail, we estimated an uncertainty range of 1–20 km for each coordinate. These uncertainty levels were considered when interpreting spatial patterns, avoiding over-interpretation of fine-scale distribution.

RESULTS

 

In total, we documented 16 photographic records of the Jaguar in the state of Santa Catarina between 1866 and 1984 (Table 1, Images 1–6), most of which have not been published in scientific journals. The historical records available indicate that the Jaguar was widely distributed across the state, with documented evidence throughout the 20th Century.

In the extreme west and west of Santa Catarina, nine occurrences were registered (56.25% of all). In the Itajaí Valley and northern plateau, four records were documented (25%). In the north-east, two records were identified (12.5%), and in the highlands, there was only one confirmed record (6.25%).

Of the 16 documented photographic records, 13 (81.25% of all) refer to hunted animals, while only three (18.75%) present captured individuals. Our dataset indicates for the first time that a Jaguar was shot in 1984 in the town Campo Erê (Image 6), located in the extreme west, close to the border with Paraná State. This record represents the most recent documentation in the state, updating the previously available data.

 

 

DISCUSSION

 

Reliability and limitations of historical records

Historical records have long been used to describe the distribution of mammals, especially in regions where contemporary ecological data are scarce or absent (Tyler & Anderson 1990; Timm et al. 1997; Aubry et al. 2007; Díaz 2010; Babb et al. 2022). In Santa Catarina, however, determining these records presents substantial challenges due to the lack of consistent historical documentation. Similar difficulties were highlighted by Babb et al. (2022) in Arizona, where the absence of systematic registers and inconsistencies in sources compromised the reconstruction of temporal distribution patterns.

This challenge is exacerbated by the fact that much of the information concerning the Jaguar in Santa Catarina is dispersed across non-indexed documents, oral accounts, and journalistic records. These limitations reinforce the relevance of integrating different types of historical evidence to improve understanding of the species’ past distribution in the state.

Despite these difficulties, the data gathered suggest that the Jaguar once had a broad distribution in Santa Catarina. However, estimating its actual area of occupation with precision remains difficult not only because of gaps and inconsistencies in the documentation (Babb et al. 2022), but also due to intrinsic biological characteristics that hinder detection. The Jaguar is a solitary animal with large home ranges and a naturally low population density (Sanderson et al. 2002; Silver et al. 2004), making both historical and contemporary assessments of distribution inherently challenging.

Historical patterns of hunting and human persecution

The relatively high number of Jaguars shot in Santa Catarina over the decades demonstrates that hunting has been a recurrent practice in the state. This pattern converges with global evidence indicating that direct persecution is one of the main factors responsible for the decline of large carnivore populations (Ripple et al. 2014). Although the state of Santa Catarina lacks quantitative historical datasets on hunting pressure or prey abundance, the predominance of hunted specimens among the available photographic records strongly suggests that direct persecution played a central role in the Jaguar’s decline. This qualitative pattern is consistent with trends documented, where hunting intensity has been identified as a major predictor of local extirpations (Gittleman et al. 2001; Mazzolli 2008; Nyhus 2016; Paviolo et al. 2016; Franco et al. 2018; Teixeira et al. 2023; Thompson et al. 2023). The combined effects of predatory hunting, retaliatory killing, and recreational hunting for trophies (Franco et al. 2018; Thompson et al. 2023) likely accelerated the disappearance of the Jaguar in Santa Catarina.

Beyond commercial and recreational motivations, human-wildlife negative interactions also played a substantial role. Competition for prey, aggravated by ecological imbalance and resource scarcity, often forced Jaguars into anthropogenic areas, resulting in predation on livestock and consequent retaliatory killing by farmers (Peters et al. 2016; Romero-Muñoz et al. 2019). Even though Jaguar meat is not traditionally consumed and is considered “disgusting” by some traditional communities (Fonseca et al. 2006), retaliatory hunting is widely documented in response to livestock depredation (Marchini & Macdonald 2012).

Cultural perceptions additionally contributed to the Jaguar’s decline. Since early colonisation, the Jaguar has occupied a symbolic place of fear in the popular imagination, associated with risks to human life (Adams 2012). Although attacks on humans are rare, they amplify fear and negative attitudes (Dickman 2010; Kelly 2019), often justifying preemptive killing (Neto et al. 2011; Iserson & Francis 2015; Jędrzejewski et al. 2017). Fear-driven persecution is considered one of the major threats to large carnivore populations in Brazil (Inskip & Zimmermann 2009; ICMBio 2013), and has historically contributed to the decline of the Jaguar in Santa Catarina.

 

Habitat loss, prey decline, regional context, and extinction dynamics

Habitat loss and fragmentation represent critical factors in the decline of Jaguar populations. The species depends on large, well-connected forest remnants and abundant prey to persist (Cullen et al. 2005; De Angelo et al. 2011). Fragmentation reduces connectivity between habitat patches (Sanderson et al. 2002; Zeller 2007; Galetti et al. 2013; Knox et al. 2019; Romero-Muñoz et al. 2019), leading to rapid reductions in Jaguar occupancy.

In Santa Catarina, historical forest loss and extensive habitat fragmentation (Astete et al. 2008; Rocha et al. 2023) likely undermined the ecological conditions required to sustain viable Jaguar populations, contributing to the marked depletion of key native prey species such as White-lipped Peccary Tayassu pecari, Collared Peccary Dicotyles tajacu, and Lowland Tapir Tapirus terrestris. The disappearance of these taxa, primarily due to poaching (Mazzolli 2008; Keuroghlian et al. 2012; Whitworth et al. 2022), may have played a decisive role in the Jaguar’s extirpation. Reduced prey availability is known to elevate extinction risk for large predators, particularly in fragmented landscapes where recolonisation is limited (Karanth & Chellam 2009; Foster et al. 2016). In contrast, Jaguar populations persisting elsewhere in Brazil and Central America occur in regions with substantially greater prey abundance, reflected in markedly higher population densities, e.g., 6.7 individuals per 100 km² in the Pantanal (Soisalo & Cavalcanti 2006), 17.9 individuals per 100 km² in the Amazon (Ramalho 2012), and 4.6–8.8 individuals per 100 km² in Mexico and Belize (Silver et al. 2004; Torre & Medellín 2011). Even within the Atlantic Forest, regions such as Vale Natural Reserve support Jaguars largely because native prey assemblages remain relatively intact (Facure & Giaretta 1996; Galetti et al. 2009; Srbek-Araujo & Chiarello 2016).

Understanding the Jaguar’s disappearance also requires considering the broader regional context of the Atlantic Forest. Across this biome, fewer than 300 Jaguars remain, distributed in small, isolated, and highly vulnerable subpopulations (Paviolo et al. 2016). Within this already precarious scenario, the southern portion of the Atlantic Forest stands out for exhibiting the most severe levels of contraction of the Jaguar range.

When compared with its neighbouring southern states, Santa Catarina presents the scarcest confirmed records of Jaguar occurrence. While Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul still retain recent or occasional confirmations of the species (Kasper et al. 2015; ICMBio 2020; Morato et al. 2023; Marcuzzo et al. 2025), the last verified record in Santa Catarina dates to 1984, with no subsequent evidence of persistence. Since that record, no confirmed occurrences have been documented despite increasing research effort in the region. More recently, the surroundings of the 1984 record in Campo Erê have been the focus of some ongoing and unpublished wildlife monitoring initiatives, including camera trap surveys conducted by the first author, as well as informal surveys based on transect walks and interviews with forestry professionals, long-term residents, and biologists working in the area (forest engineer Rafael Link pers. comm. 10.xii.2024; biologist Augusto Finco pers. comm. 14.vi.2025; local residents Vilmar Tonatto pers. comm. 11.vi.2025, and Benhur Tonatto pers. comm. 16.xii.2025). These combined sources have not yielded any verifiable evidence of Jaguar presence to date. This temporal and evidential contrast suggests that Jaguar populations declined earlier and more abruptly in Santa Catarina, culminating in local extirpation, whereas remnant populations persisted in adjacent states. This pattern likely reflects a combination of accelerated habitat conversion, collapse of prey populations, and intense persecution throughout the 20th Century.

In Paraná, although the Jaguar is classified as Critically Endangered, it persists in two forested nuclei: the Serra do Mar region and the Upper Paraná-Misiones Green Corridor, both of which have yielded confirmed records since 2016 (Casanova & Bernardo 2017; Nagy-Reis et al. 2020; Subirá et al. 2024). Recent population estimates derived from the 2020 Jaguar Census indicate that the broader bi-national Green Corridor supports an average of 93 individuals with a range of 73–122, representing the largest remaining Jaguar subpopulation in the Atlantic Forest (Paviolo et al. 2008; Subirá et al. 2024). Within the Brazilian portion, 19–33 Jaguars are estimated to be present in an area of 1,852.6 km2 in Iguaçu National Park and surroundings (ICMBio 2020; Freitas 2021). The situation is even more critical in Rio Grande do Sul, where fewer than five individuals are thought to remain, all of them restricted to Turvo State Park, the last known area of its occurrence in the northeastern portion of the state (Paviolo et al. 2006; Kasper 2007; Kasper et al. 2015; Marcuzzo et al. 2025).

In contrast, Santa Catarina shows a complete absence of confirmed records for over four decades, reinforcing the interpretation that the Jaguar disappeared in the state earlier than in Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul. The 1984 record in Campo Erê updates previous knowledge, surpassing the last record cited by Mazzoli (2008) in Urubici in 1972, and reveals a pattern in which the final occurrences were concentrated near state borders and in regions with a lower human population density. Such spatial clustering suggests that human expansion and fragmentation may have accelerated range contraction, a trend consistent with broader patterns described for the Jaguar across South America (Chávez et al. 2016; Pereira-Garbero 2016).

Finally, distribution models indicate that parts of Santa Catarina retain potential connectivity with ecological corridors extending to Argentina (Rabinowitz & Zeller 2010). This reinforces the hypothesis proposed by Fusco-Costa et al. (2022), according to which certain forest remnants in the state may function as occasional passage zones or receive sporadic dispersers from neighbouring regions. Whether such movements still occur needs to be figured out in dedicated surveys. 

Although the lack of recent confirmed records strongly supports the hypothesis of local extirpation, the absence of detection does not necessarily imply true absence. Modern survey techniques, such as large-scale camera trapping, environmental DNA, could reveal whether individuals still disperse into Santa Catarina from neighbouring areas. Integrating such approaches in future research may help clarify whether the Jaguar is definitively extinct or simply undetected at extremely low densities.

 

 

Table 1. Confirmed historical records of the Jaguar Panthera onca in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, between 1866 and 1984.

Year

Locality

Approximate coordinates

Type of record

Primary source of photograph

1866

Joinville

−26.304760, −48.845871

Killed

Fundação Biblioteca Nacional

1905

Corupá

−26.426010, −49.243450

Killed

Ligmar Raeder

1916

Blumenau

-26.916578, -49.071732

Captured

Museu Frei Miguel

1930

Itapiranga

−27.167940, −53.712952

Killed

Museu Almiro Theobaldo Müller

1938

Fraiburgo

−27.023319, −50.921928

Killed

Walter Neves

1944

Taió

−27.115748, −49.994181

Killed

Maria Vizentainer

1952

Sul Brasil

−26.741123, −52.969914

Killed

Ross family

1953

Blumenau

−26.916578, −49.071732

Killed

Alfredo Kath

1954

Guaraciaba

−26.597978, −53.521480

Captured

Lauro Steffen

1955

Paraíso

−26.619028, −53.673220

Killed

Biazzi family

1960

Anchieta

−26.536889, −53.331465

Killed

Piccoli family

1960

Itapiranga

−27.167940, −53.712952

Captured

Museu Almiro Theobaldo Müller

1960

Cunha Porã

−26.892682, −53.171931

Killed

Fundação e Casa da Cultura

1970

Joinville

−26.304760, −48.845871

Killed

Newspaper A Notícia

1972

Urubici

−28.006726, −49.591561

Killed

Orquiso Rei de Oliveira

1984

Campo Erê

−26.395318, −53.079029

Killed

Goelzer family

 

 

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