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SPECIES Potos flavus
Author: | Schreber, 1774. | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 1(9): pl. 42[1774]; see also text, p. 187[189](index)[1774]. | Common Name: | Kinkajou | Type Locality: | "Er ist, der Sage nach, auf den Gebirgen in Jamaica einheimisch"; restricted by Thomas (1902b) to "Surinam". Ford and Hoffmann (1988) and Husson (1978) discussed the confusion over the name and type locality. | 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. | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Hondurus); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | 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). |
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