Procyon cancrivorus (G. Cuvier, 1798) . Tabi. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim., p. 113.

TYPE LOCALITY: "se trouve à Cayenne" [French Guiana, Cayenne] .

DISTRIBUTION: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

SYNONYMS: aequatorialis J. A. Allen, 1915; brasiliensis Ihering, 1911; nigripes Mivart, 1886; panamensis Goldman, 1913; proteus J. A. Allen, 1904.