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Procyon (raccoon)
Taxonomy
Procyon was named by Storr (1780). It is extant. It is the type genus of Procyoninae.
It was assigned to Procyonina by Gray (1825); to Carnivora by Leidy (1860); to Procyoninae by Hay (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and Baskin (1998); to Procyonini by Baskin (2004); and to Procyonidae by Storr (1780), Wortman and Matthew (1899), Wilson (1967), Carroll (1988), Hollister (2000), Salles et al. (2006) and Albright et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Procyonina by Gray (1825); to Carnivora by Leidy (1860); to Procyoninae by Hay (1902), Kurten and Anderson (1980) and Baskin (1998); to Procyonini by Baskin (2004); and to Procyonidae by Storr (1780), Wortman and Matthew (1899), Wilson (1967), Carroll (1988), Hollister (2000), Salles et al. (2006) and Albright et al. (2019).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1780 | Procyon Storr |
| 1795 | Lotor Geoffroy and Cuvier |
| 1825 | Procyon Gray p. 339 |
| 1860 | Procyon Leidy p. 115 |
| 1899 | Procyon Wortman and Matthew p. 129 |
| 1902 | Procyon Hay p. 764 |
| 1967 | Procyon Wilson p. 211 |
| 1980 | Procyon Kurten and Anderson p. 175 |
| 1988 | Procyon Carroll |
| 1998 | Procyon Baskin p. 148 |
| 2000 | Procyon Hollister p. 145 |
| 2004 | Procyon Baskin p. 717 |
| 2006 | Procyon Salles et al. p. 8 |
| 2019 | Procyon Albright et al. p. 177 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Procyon Storr 1780 [raccoon]
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Subg. Procyon (Euprocyon) Gray 1864
Subg. Procyon (Procyon) Storr 1780
Procyon cancrivorus Cuvier 1798 [crab eating raccoon]
†Procyon gipsoni Emmert and Short 2018
Procyon gymnocercus Fischer 1814 [pampas fox]
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 [raccoon]
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Invalid names: Procyon nanus Simpson 1929 [synonym], Procyon priscus Leconte 1848 [synonym], Procyon simus Gidley 1906 [synonym]
†Procyon megalokolos Emmert and Short 2018
†Procyon rexroadensis Hibbard 1941
Invalid names: Lotor Geoffroy and Cuvier 1795 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available