Bassaricyon beddardi Pocock, 1921 . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 7:231.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Bastrica woods, Essequibo River, British Guiana " .

DISTRIBUTION: Guyana, and possibly adjacent Venezuela and Brasil.

COMMENTS: A renaming of alleni Sclater, 1895 (not Thomas, 1880). Cabrera (1958) erroneously listed Bassaricyon beddardi as Bassariscus beddardi .