Atelocynus microtis (Sclater, 1883) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1882:631 [1883].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Amazons," restricted by Hershkovitz (1957a) to "south bank of the Rio Amazonas, Parâ, Brazil."

DISTRIBUTION: Amazonian Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia; perhaps Bolivia, and a second, allopatric population in S Brazil, Paraguay and N Argentina (Ginsberg and Macdonald, 1990).

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: sclateri J. A. Allen, 1905.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Hershkovitz (1961a) and Berta (1986, Mammalian Species, 256).