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Potos flavus guerrerensis Coldmanf* 



1915. Potos flavus guerrerensis Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 28, 



p. 133, June 29, 1915. 

 Type of Locality. — Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico. 



Potos flavus dugesii Villa 



1944. Potos flavus dugesii Villa, Anal. Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Mexico, vol. 15, 

 No. 1, p. 323. 



Type Locality. — Southeast of La Esperanza coffee plantation, 45 kilometers 

 northeast of Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. Altitude, 760 meters. Range. — Sierra 

 Madre del Sur, Chiapas. 



Potos flavus campechensis Nelson and Goldmanf* 



1931. Potos flavus campechensis Nelson and Goldman, Journ. Washington 

 Acad. Sci., vol. 21, p. 482, Nov. 19, 1931. 



Type Locality. — La Tuxpeiia, Champoton, Campeche, Mexico. Range. — 

 Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan Peninsula, Tabasco, Guatemala, and northern 

 Honduras (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 79, p. 177, May 29, 1942) . 

 Recorded also from Bokowina, Silkgrass, Dog Creek, Double Falls, and Kate's 

 Lagoon in British Honduras (Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. Hist. 

 Mus. Publ 670, vol. 31, p. 561, July 10, 1951). 



Potos flavus arborensis Goodwinf* 



1938. Potos flavus arborensis Goodwin, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 987, p. 1, May 

 13, 1938. 



Type Locality. — El Sauce Peralta, a farm on the Atlantic Railway less than 

 halfway from San Jose to Limon, Cartago, Costa Rica. Altitude, about 1,000 

 feet. Range. — Eastern Costa Rica (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 87, p. 429, Dec. 31, 1946) . 

 Potos flavus chiriquensis J. A. Allen* 



1904. Potos flavus chiriquensis J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 20, 

 p. 72, Feb. 29, 1904. 



Type Locality. — Boqueron, Chiriqui, Panama. Range. — Western Panama 

 eastward at least as far as Canal Zone (Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 

 69, No. 5, p. 159, Apr. 26, 1920) and northward to northwestern Costa Rica on 

 Pacific side of Cordillera. Vertical range from near sea level to over 5,000 

 feet (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 87, p. 428, Dec. 31, 1946) . 



Potos flavus isthmicus Goldmanf* 



1913. Potos flavus isthmicus Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 22, 

 p. 14, Feb. 28, 1913. 



Type Locality. — Near head of Rio Limon, Mount Pirri, Darien, eastern 

 Panama. Altitude, 5,200 feet. Range. — Mountains of eastern Panama (see 

 Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 69, No. 5, p. 158, Apr. 26, 1920) . 



Genus BASSARICYON ■ J. A. Allen 

 1876. Bassaricyon J. A. Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 28, p. 

 20, Apr. 18, 1876. (Type, Bassaricyon gabbii J. A. Allen.) 



* Regarded by Pocock (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1921, pt. 2, p. 422, July 8, 1921) as the 

 type of a special subfamily, the Bassaricyoninae. 



