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--> GENUS Eira
SPECIES Eira barbara
Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 46. | Common Name: | Tayra | Type Locality: | "Brasilia," restricted by Lönnberg (1913) to "Pernambuco." | Distribution: | Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico (Sinaloa and Tamaulipas), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Surinam, Trinidad, Venezuela. | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Honduras); IUCN – Vulnerable as E. b. senex, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Reviewed by Thomas (1900a), Lönnberg (1913), and Presley (2000). Synonyms allocated according to Cabrera (1957), Hall (1981), and Presley (2000). |
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