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Potos E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier 1795
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Potos E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, 1795. Mag. Encyclop., 2:187.
TYPE SPECIES: Viverra caudivolvula Schreber, 1777 (= Lemur flavus Schreber, 1774), by original designation.
COMMENTS: Hernandez-Camacho (1977) placed Potos in Cercoleptidae Bonaparte, 1838.
Notes
Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 333, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Procyonidae
- Genus
- Potos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Potos and F. G., 1795 sec. Wozencraft, 1993
References
- Schreber, J. C. D. 1777. Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen 1776 - 1778. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen, 3: 377 - 440, pls. 104 B, 107 Aa, 109 B, 110 B, 115 B, 125 B, 127 B, 136, 146 A.
- Hernandez-Camacho, J. 1977. Notas para una monografia de Potos flavus (Mammalia: Carnivora) en Colombia. Caldasia, 11 (55): 147 - 181.
- Bonaparte, C. L. J. L. 1838. Synopsis vertebratorum systematis. Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali, Bologna, 1: 105 - 133.