diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/catalog.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/catalog.go
index fe228d23f0f6..81880d73aacf 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/catalog.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/catalog.go
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ type Monitor struct {
 	PackagesDiscovered progress.Monitorable // the number of packages discovered from all registered catalogers
 }
 
-// CatalogResult provides the result of running a single cataloger against source
-type CatalogResult struct {
+// catalogResult provides the result of running a single cataloger against source
+type catalogResult struct {
 	Packages      []pkg.Package
 	Relationships []artifact.Relationship
 	// Discovered may sometimes be more than len(packages)
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ func newMonitor() (*progress.Manual, *progress.Manual) {
 	return &filesProcessed, &packagesDiscovered
 }
 
-func runCataloger(cataloger pkg.Cataloger, resolver source.FileResolver) (*CatalogResult, error) {
-	catalogerResult := new(CatalogResult)
+func runCataloger(cataloger pkg.Cataloger, resolver source.FileResolver) (*catalogResult, error) {
+	catalogerResult := new(catalogResult)
 
 	// find packages from the underlying raw data
 	log.Debugf("cataloging with %q", cataloger.Name())
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ func Catalog(resolver source.FileResolver, release *linux.Release, parallelism i
 	log.Debugf("Using parallelism=%d for catalogs=%d", parallelism, nCatalogers)
 
 	jobs := make(chan pkg.Cataloger, nCatalogers)
-	results := make(chan *CatalogResult, nCatalogers)
+	results := make(chan *catalogResult, nCatalogers)
 	discoveredPackages := make(chan int64, nCatalogers)
 
 	waitGroup := sync.WaitGroup{}