Order Edentata
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)
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book chapter
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Priodontes maximus
Kerr, 1792
.
Anim. Kingdom, p. 112
.
TYPE
LOCALITY:
French Guiana
, Cayenne
.
DISTRIBUTION: South America east of the Andes, from
Venezuela
to Guianas and
Colombia
, south to
Salta
,
Formosa
, Misiones and
Chaco
(N.
Argentina
).
COMMENT: Includes
giganteus
;
see Thomas, 1880, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880:402; Allen, 1895, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 7: 187; Hershkovitz, 1959, J. Mammal., 40:350; Wetzel and Lovett, 1974, Univ. Conn. Occ. Pap. Biol. Sei. Ser., 2:209;
Handley, 1976
, Brigham Young Univ. Sei. Bull., 20(5): 44.
PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as
P. giganteus
(=tnaximus).
U.S.
ESA - Endangered as
P. maximus
(^
giganteus
).
ISIS NUMBER: 5301407003007001001 as
P. giganteus
.