North American fauna . *iUdU THE RACCOONS OF NORTH AND MIDDLEAMERICA By EDWARD A. GOLDMAN, Senior Biologist, Biological Surveys, Branch of Wildlife Research INTRODUCTION The raccoons, genus Procyon, colloquially known as coons, belongto the carnivorous family Procyonidae, which also includes the Ameri-can genera Nai^ua, Nasuella, Bassaricyon, and Polos, and the OldWorld genera Ailurus and Ailuropoda of the subfamily Ailurinae. The members of the Procyon lotor group (subgenus Procyon), with atranscontinental range from southern Canada to Panama, except inparts of the Rocky Mountain region, and
North American fauna . *iUdU THE RACCOONS OF NORTH AND MIDDLEAMERICA By EDWARD A. GOLDMAN, Senior Biologist, Biological Surveys, Branch of Wildlife Research INTRODUCTION The raccoons, genus Procyon, colloquially known as coons, belongto the carnivorous family Procyonidae, which also includes the Ameri-can genera Nai^ua, Nasuella, Bassaricyon, and Polos, and the OldWorld genera Ailurus and Ailuropoda of the subfamily Ailurinae. The members of the Procyon lotor group (subgenus Procyon), with atranscontinental range from southern Canada to Panama, except inparts of the Rocky Mountain region, and including those inhabitingseveral distant islands, are among the most familiar and characteristicof North American mammals. This group is not known to occursouth of Panama. It is overlapped in the Isthmian region by theso-called crab-eating raccoons of the subgenus Euprocyon, whichrange from that northern limit as far south as Paraguay in SouthAmerica. The raccoons have been greatly reduced in mnnbers orhave disappeare
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