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Genus COENDOU ° 3 Lacepede 

 1799. Coendou Lacepede, Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, ordres et 

 genres des mammiferes, p. 11 (published as supplement to Discours 

 d'ouverture et de cloture du cours d'histoire naturelle ... ) . 

 (Type, Hystrix prehensilis Linnaeus.) 



Coendou mexicanus mexicanus (Kerr) * 



1792. Hystrix mexicana Kerr, The Animal Kingdom ... p. 214. 

 1884. Synetheres mexicanus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 

 29), p. 600, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1901. Coendou mexicanum Miller and Rehn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 30, p. 173, Dec. 27, 1901. 



Type Locality. — Mountains of Mexico. Range. — Probably high mountain 

 ranges of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua (Goodwin, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 79, p. 172, May 29, 1942) . Recorded also from 

 Xilitla region of San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Dalquest, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Loui- 

 siana State Univ. No. 23, p. 12, July 10, 1950) . 



Coendou mexicanus laenatus Thomas* 



1903. Coendou laenatus Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 11, p. 381, 



April 1903. 

 1920. Coendou mexicanum laenatum Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 



69, No. 5, p. 133, Apr. 24, 1920. 

 Type Locality. — Boquete, Chiriqui, Panama. Altitude, 5,000 feet. Range. — 

 Highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 87, p. 416, Dec. 31, 1946). 



Coendou mexicanus yucataniae Thomas 



1902. Coendou mexicanus yucataniae Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 

 vol. 10, p. 249, September 1902. 



Type Locality. — Yucatan (probably near Izamal) , Mexico. Range. — Yucatan. 



Coendou pallidas (Waterhouse) 



1848. Cercolabes pallidas Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 



2, p. 434. 

 1897. [Coendu] pallidus Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium . . . , fasc. 3, 



p. 622. 

 Type Locality. — "Said to be . . . the West Indies." 



Coendou rothschildi Thomas* 



1902. Coendou rothschildi Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 10, p. 169, 

 August 1902. 



Type Locality. — Sevilla Island, off Chiriqui, Panama. Range. — Canal Zone 

 and southwestern Panama (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, 

 p. 134, Apr. 24, 1920) . 



68 For masculine gender see Tate, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 68, p. 306, footnote, 

 June 12, 1935. Subfamily Coendinae proposed by Pocock (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1922, 

 pt. 2, p. 422, June 28, 1922) not recognized as valid by either Ellerman (The families and 

 genera of living rodents, vol. 1, p. 177, June 8, 1940) or Simpson (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 85, p. 94, Oct. 5, 1945) . 



