Potos E. Geoffroy and G. Cuvier, 1795 . Mag. Encyclop., 2: 187.

COMMENT: Hernandez-Camacho, 1977, Caldasia, 11: 148, resurrected Bonaparte's 1838, family Cercoleptidae for this taxon, as a provisional arrangement, but Hall, 1981:977, and SK consider it a procyonid.

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