Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin, 1788)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 313

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scientific name	Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin, 1788)
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Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin, 1788) View in CoL . In Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1:93.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in fluviis americae meridionalis"; Cabrera (1958:274) restricted to "rió Sâo Francisco, en la orilla correspondiente al estado de Alagoas ", Brazil .

DISTRIBUTION: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix I; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: lupina Thomas, 1889 ; nitens Olfers, 1818; paraguensis Schinz, 1821 ; paranensis Rengger, 1830 ; paroensis Lesson, 1842; sambachii Schinz, 1844 ; sanbachii Wiegmann, 1838 .

COMMENTS: See lengthly comments by Harris (1968) concerning the correct identity of the type, the confusion in published synonomies, and the type locality.