Potos flavus
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Potos flavus (Schreber, 1774). Die Säugethiere, 1 (9):pl. 42(1774]; text, p. 187[189] (index) [1774].
TYPE LOCALITY: "Er ist, der Sage nach, auf den Gebirgen in Jamaica einheimisch"; restricted by Thomas (1902b), to " Surinam ". Ford and Hoffmann (1988) discussed the confusion over the name and type locality.
DISTRIBUTION: S Tamaulipas and Guerrero (possibly Michoacan), Mexico through Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, to the Mato Grosso of Brazil and N South American (Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia).
STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Hondurus).
SYNONYMS: arborensis Goodwin, 1938; aztecus Thomas, 1902; boothi Goodwin, 1957; brachyotos Schinz, 1844; brachyotus Martin, 1836; brasiliensis Ihering, 1911; campechensis Nelson and Goldman, 1931; caucensis J. A. Allen, 1904; caudivolvula Schreber, 1777; chapadensis J. A. Allen, 1904; chiriquensis Allen, 1904; dugesii Villa, 1944; guerrerensis Goldman, 1915; isthmicus Goldman, 1913; lepida liliger, 1815; mansuetus Thomas, 1914; megalotus Martin, 1836; meridensis Thomas, 1902; modestus Lönnberg, 1921; nocturna Wied[-Neuwied], 1826; potto Müller, 1776; prehensilis Kerr, 1792; simiasciurus Schreber, 1774; tolimensis J. A. Allen, 1913.
COMMENTS: Revised by Kortlucke (1973) and Hernandez-Camacho (1977). Reviewed by Ford and Hoffmann (1988, Mammalian Species, 321), Cabrera (1958), and Husson (1978).
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Procyonidae
- Genus
- Potos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Schreber
- Species
- flavus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Potos flavus (Schreber, 1774) sec. Wozencraft, 1993
References
- Thomas, O. 1902 b. On the geographical races of the kinkajou. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 7, 9: 266 - 270.
- Ford, L. S., and R. S. Hoffmann. 1988. Potos flavus. Mammalian Species, 321: 1 - 9.
- Goodwin, G. G. 1938. Five new rodents from the eastern Elburz Mountains and a new race of hare from Teheran. American Museum Novitates, 1950: 1 - 5.
- Schinz, H. R. 1844 - 1845. Systematisches verzeichniss aller bis jetzt bekannten Saugethiere, oder, Synopsis mammalium, nach dem Cuvier' schen system. Solothurn, Jent und Gassmann, 2 vols.
- 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.
- Goldman, E. A. 1913. Descriptions of new mammals from Panama and Mexico. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 60 (22): 1 - 20.
- Kerr, R. 1792. The animal kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; class I: Mammalia. London, J. Murray & R. Faulder, 664 pp.
- Allen, J. A. 1913. Revision of the Melanomys group of American Muridae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 32: 535 - 555.
- Kortlucke, S. M. 1973. Morphological variation in the kinkajou, Potos flavus (Mammalia: Procyonidae), in Middle America. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 17: 1 - 36.
- Hernandez-Camacho, J. 1977. Notas para una monografia de Potos flavus (Mammalia: Carnivora) en Colombia. Caldasia, 11 (55): 147 - 181.
- Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72.
- Husson, A. M. 1978. The mammals of Suriname. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 569 pp., 160 pls.