Potos flavus (Schreber 1774)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 626

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scientific name

Potos flavus (Schreber 1774)
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Potos flavus (Schreber 1774) View in CoL

[Lemur] flavus Schreber 1774 View in CoL , Die Saugethiere, Vol. 1, 9: pl. 42 [1774]; see also text, p. 187 [189] (index) [1774].

Type Locality: "Er ist, der Sage nach, auf den Gebirgen in Jamaica einheimisch"; restricted by Thomas (1902 b) to " Surinam ". Ford and Hoffmann (1988) and Husson (1978) discussed the confusion over the name and type locality .

Vernacular Names: Kinkajou.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Potos flavus subsp. flavus Schreber 1774

Subspecies Potos flavus subsp. chapadensis J. A. Allen 1904

Subspecies Potos flavus subsp. chiriquensis J. A. Allen 1904

Subspecies Potos flavus subsp. megalotus Martin 1836

Subspecies Potos flavus subsp. meridensis Thomas 1902

Subspecies Potos flavus subsp. modestus Thomas 1902

Subspecies Potos flavus subsp. nocturnus Wied-Neuwied 1826

Distribution: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Mato Grosso), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico (S Tamaulipas and Guerrero and possibly Michoacan), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (Hondurus); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Cabrera (1957), Husson (1978), and Ford and Hoffmann (1988). Revised by Kortlucke (1973) and Hernández-Camacho (1977). Synonyms allocated according to Ford and Hoffmann (1988).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Procyonidae

Genus

Potos

Loc

Potos flavus (Schreber 1774)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

[Lemur] flavus

Schreber 1774: pl. 42 [1774]; see also text, p. 187 [189] (index) [1774]
1774
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