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GENUS Potos

Author:E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, 1795.
Citation:Mag. Encyclop., 2: 187.
Type Species:Viverra caudivolvula Schreber, 1777 (= Lemur flavus Schreber, 1774), by original designation.
Comments:Hernández-Camacho (1977) placed Potos in Cercoleptidae Bonaparte, 1838.
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Offspring:

SPECIES flavus

SUBSPECIES flavus

SUBSPECIES chapadensis

SUBSPECIES chiriquensis

SUBSPECIES megalotus

SUBSPECIES meridensis

SUBSPECIES modestus

SUBSPECIES nocturnus

Synonyms:

    Cercoleptes Illiger, 1811
    Kinkajou Lacépčde, 1799
    Kinkaschu G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1813
    Mamcercolepteus Herrera, 1899

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