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 Subfamily Protelinae I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1851 . Cat. Méth. Coll. Mamm. Ois. ( Mus . Hist. Nat. Paris):xiv . COMMENTS: Type genus: Proteles I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1824 , by original designation ( Melville and Smith, 1987 ). Ronnefeld (1969) and Meester et al. (1986) placed Proteles in a separate family.