Published January 31, 2009
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Procyonidae Gray 1825
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Description
Family PROCYONIDAE
(RACCOONS)
• Medium-sized mammals, many species with facial masks and/or long ringed tails.
• 54-144 cm.
• North, Central, and South America.
• Found in every forest type within their range; some also use urban areas or arid lands with rocky shelters.
• 6 genera, 12 species, 78 extant taxa.
• 1 species Critically Endangered; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2009, Procyonidae, pp. 504-530 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 1 Carnivores, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 504, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5714404
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Procyonidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Procyonidae Gray, 1825 sec. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2009