Pteronura Gray, 1837 . Mag. Nat. Hist. [Charlesworth's], 1:580.

TYPE SPECIES: Pteronura sambachii Gray, 1837 (= Mustela brasilienesis Gmelin, 1788), by monotypy. (Melville and Smith, 1987).

SYNONYMS: Pterura Wiegmann, 1839; Saricovia Zimmermann, 1777 .