Potos flavus
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Procyonidae
Potos
Potos flavus

description: <i>Potos flavus</i> (Schreber, 1774). Die Säugethiere, 1 (9):pl. <i>42(1774];</i> 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: <i>arborensis</i> Goodwin, 1938; <i>aztecus</i> Thomas, 1902; <i>boothi</i> Goodwin, 1957; <i>brachyotos</i> Schinz, 1844; <i>brachyotus</i> Martin, 1836; <i>brasiliensis</i> Ihering, 1911; <i>campechensis</i> Nelson and Goldman, 1931; <i>caucensis</i> J. A. Allen, 1904; <i>caudivolvula</i> Schreber, 1777; <i>chapadensis</i> J. A. Allen, 1904; <i>chiriquensis</i> Allen, 1904; <i>dugesii</i> Villa, 1944; <i>guerrerensis</i> Goldman, 1915; <i>isthmicus</i> Goldman, 1913; <i>lepida</i> liliger, 1815; <i>mansuetus</i> Thomas, 1914; <i>megalotus</i> Martin, 1836; <i>meridensis</i> Thomas, 1902; <i>modestus</i> Lönnberg, 1921; <i>nocturna</i> Wied[-Neuwied], 1826; <i>potto</i> Müller, 1776; <i>prehensilis</i> Kerr, 1792; <i>simiasciurus</i> Schreber, 1774; <i>tolimensis J.</i> 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).
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on pages 333-334, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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