Metachirus nudicaudatus (Desmarest, 1817) . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 9:424.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, "Cayenne."

DISTRIBUTION: Nicaragua to Paraguay and N Argentina.

SYNONYMS: antioquiae]. A. Allen, 1916; bolivianus J. A. Allen, 1901; colombianus J. A. Allen, 1900; dentaneus Goldman, 1912; inbutus Thomas, 1923; infuscus Thomas, 1923; modestus Thomas, 1923; personatus Miranda-Ribeiro, 1936; phaeurus Thomas, 1901; tschudii J. A. Allen, 1900.

COMMENTS: M. nudicaudatus is usually cited from É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire's (1803) catalog of the mammals in the Paris Museum, but that work was not actually published; see Appendix I.