Tremarctos ornatus (F. G. Cuvier, 1825) . In E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifèeres, pt. 3, 5(50) "Ours des cordiliéres du Chili," 2 pp.

TYPE LOCALITY: "cordiliéres du Chili," restricted by Cabrera (1958) to "los montanas al este de Trujillo, departamento de la Libertad, Peril."

DISTRIBUTION: Mountainous regions of W Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and W Bolivia; perhaps Panama.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: frugilegus Tschudi, 1844; lasallei Maria, 1924; majori Thomas, 1902; nasutus Sclater, 1868; thomasi Hornaday, 1911.