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.