Order Carnivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 244 289 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352980 1ce75501-9bd6-4f4f-b9de-34a393211f7b 0-89327-235-3 7352980 Monachus tropicalis (Gray, 1850) . Cat. Spec. Mamm. Coll. Br. Mus ., Part 2, p. 28 . TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica , Pedro Cays, 80 km . south of Jamaica . DISTRIBUTION: Caribbean Sea and Yucatan . COMMENT: "Extinct since the early 1950's;" see Kenyon, 1977 , J. Mammal., 58:98. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as Monachus spp. and U.S. ESA - Endangered as Monachus tropicalis . ISIS NUMBER: 5301413002009003001.