South American coati

South American coati
Temporal range: 0.12600–0 Ma
↓
Pleistocene to Holocene[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Procyonidae
Genus: Nasua
Species:
N. nasua[1]
Binomial name
Nasua nasua[1]
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Subspecies

13, see text

South American coati range. Note: Also found in west Ecuador, and west and north Colombia, see text.
Synonyms

Viverra nasua Linnaeus, 1766

The South American coati (Nasua nasua), also known as the ring-tailed coati, is a coati species and a member of the raccoon family (Procyonidae), found in the tropical and subtropical parts of South America.[4] An adult generally weighs from 2–7.2 kg (4.4–15.9 lb) and is 85–113 cm (33–44 in) long, with half of that being its tail.[5] Its color is highly variable and the rings on the tail may be only somewhat visible, but its most distinguishing characteristic is that it lacks the largely white snout (or "nose") of its northern relative, the white-nosed coati.[5]

  1. ^ Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
  2. ^ "Carneiro Cave (Pleistocene of Brazil)". PBDB.org.
  3. ^ Emmons, L.; Helgen, K. (2016). "Nasua nasua". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T41684A45216227. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T41684A45216227.en. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
  4. ^ Gompper, M. E.; Decker, D. M. (1998). "Nasua nasua" (PDF). Mammalian Species (580): 1–9. doi:10.2307/3504444. JSTOR 3504444.
  5. ^ a b Kays, R. (2009). "Handbook of the Mammals of the World: Carnivores" (Wilson, D. E., and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1. pp. 526–528. ISBN 978-84-96553-49-1.