SummaryIn the present paper, we the report the fi rst documented occurrence in the wild of Toxocara cati in the sole representative of the genus Otocolobus, the Pallas' cat. The identity of the parasite was confi rmed by morphological characteristics and by genetic barcoding of the second internal transcribed spacer of ribosomal DNA. The morphological measures of the T. cati specimens from the Kyrgyz Pallas' cat were comparable to values reported. We discuss the conservation implication of our fi nd.