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--> FAMILY Procyonidae
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SPECIES Procyon lotor
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 48. | | Common Name: | Raccoon | | Type Locality: | "Americæ maritimis," restricted by Thomas (1911a) to "Pennsylvania" [USA]. | | Distribution: | S Canada, Mexico, Panama, USA (except parts of the Rocky Mtns). Introductions into: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Uzbekistan. | | Status: | IUCN – Extinct as P. gloveralleni, Endangered as P. insularis, P. maynardi, and P. minor, Lower Risk (lc) as P. lotor. | | Comments: | Reviewed by Lotze and Anderson (1979). Includes the Caribbean introduced populations of gloveralleni, minor, and maynardi after Helgen and Wilson (2003); includes insularis after Helgen and Wilson (In Press). Synonyms allocated according to Cabrera (1957), Lotze and Anderson (1979), and Helgen and Wilson (2003; In Press). |
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