Order Carnivora Author W. Christopher Wozencraft text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 279 348 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7359191 1-56098-217-9 7359191 Potos E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, 1795 . Mag. Encyclop., 2:187 . TYPE SPECIES: Viverra caudivolvula Schreber, 1777 (= Lemur flavus Schreber, 1774 ), by original designation. COMMENTS: Hernandez-Camacho (1977) placed Potos in Cercoleptidae Bonaparte, 1838 .