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) 52 57 book chapter 193506 10.5281/zenodo.7352995 fc9ccab4-22a3-420a-8aa3-02c6222f9b37 0-89327-235-3 7352995 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 .