Published November 14, 2025
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Potos flavus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Life Science, University of Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
- 2. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Bezuidenhoutseweg 30, 2594 AV The Hague, Netherlands
- 3. Asociación Ecológica Paquera, Lepanto y Cóbano, PO Box 25 - 5353, Jicaral, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
- 4. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy
- 5. Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy
- 6. Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213 / d, 41125 Modena, Italy & Associazione Foreste per Sempre OdV, Via D'Avia Sud 65 / a, 41126 Modena, Italy
Description
Potos flavus (von Schreber, 1774)
Material examined.
Costa Rica • Puntarenas Province, Karen Mogensen Wildlife Refuge; 09°52'25"N, 085°03'30"W; 370 m alt.; 20.04.2018; direct observation.
Identification.
Medium-sized. The fur is golden yellow and rather woolly. The head is broad, with a short snout and small and rounded ears. The tail is long. Normally nocturnal and arboreal. The kinkajou is the only New World carnivore with a prehensile tail (Reid and Gόmez Zamora 2022). Recorded in the study area in different habitat types.
Notes
Published as part of Fonda, Federica, Vezzani, Liam, Mena Aguilar, Luis Ángel, Venegas-Elizondo, Carlos Andrés, Bolaños Brenes, Alexander, Lopez, Dayron Manuel, Romeo, Giuseppe, Sonetti, Dario & Dal Zotto, Matteo, 2025, Mammal diversity and tourism influence in an under-investigated region of Costa Rica, pp. 37-74 in ZooKeys 1260 on pages 37-74, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.128800
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2018-04-20
- Verbatim event date
- 2018-04-20
- Scientific name authorship
- von Schreber
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Procyonidae
- Genus
- Potos
- Species
- flavus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Potos flavus (Schreber, 1774) sec. Fonda, Vezzani, Aguilar, Venegas-Elizondo, Brenes, Lopez, Romeo, Sonetti & Zotto, 2025
References
- Reid F, Gοmez Zamora G (2022) Pocket Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press, New York, 286 pp.