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Nasua (coati)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae

Taxonomy
Nasua was named by Storr (1780). It is extant.

It was assigned to Procyonina by Gray (1825); to Procyoninae by Baskin (1998); to Procyonini by Baskin (2004); and to Procyonidae by Storr (1780), Wortman and Matthew (1899), Carroll (1988), Hollister (2000) and Salles et al. (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1780Nasua Storr
1825Nasua Gray p. 339
1899Nasua Wortman and Matthew p. 129
1988Nasua Carroll
1998Nasua Baskin p. 148
2000Nasua Hollister p. 147
2004Nasua Baskin p. 717
2006Nasua Salles et al. p. 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
RankNameAuthor
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderCaniformiaKretzoi 1943
infraorderCanoidea(Simpson 1931)
superfamilyArctoideaFlower 1869
—Mustelida
familyProcyonidaeGray 1825
subfamilyProcyoninaeGray 1825
tribeProcyoniniGray 1825
genusNasuaStorr 1780

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. Nasua Storr 1780 [coati]
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Nasua narica Linnaeus 1766 [white-nosed coati]
Nasua nasua Linneaus 1766 [South American coati]
†Nasua nicaeensis Holl 1829
†Nasua pronarica Dalquest 1978
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean

Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: scansorialg
Diet: carnivoreg
Diet 2: omnivoreg
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Comments: "meat/non-vertebrate group" (Van Valkenburgh 1988) and "scansorial" (Rose 1987; Gebo and Rose 1993)g
Created: 2009-01-04 14:21:10
Modified: 2011-04-24 20:57:15
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Lillegraven 1979, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009, Van Valkenburgh 1988, Carroll 1988

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Hemphillian to the top of the Holocene or 10.30000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 4.9 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Hemphillian10.3 - 4.9USA (Florida) Nasua sp. (18573)
Blancan4.9 - 1.8USA (Texas) Nasua pronarica (20060)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Bolivia (Tarija ) Nasua sp. (70673)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Brazil (Goiás) Nasua nasua (211821)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Mexico (Quintana Roo) Nasua narica (212361)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Brazil (Sao Paulo) Nasua nasua (71269)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Brazil (Districto Agropecura) Nasua nasua (21687)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Peru Nasua nasua (21689)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Panama Nasua nasua (21691)