Mountain Coati
Nasuella olivacea
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Procyonidae
The western mountain coati or western dwarf coati (Nasuella olivacea) is a small procyonid, found in cloud forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,300–4,250 metres (4,270–13,940 ft) in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. A population discovered in the Apurímac–Cuzco region of southern Peru (more than 1,000 km or 620 mi south of the previous distribution limit) has tentatively been identified as the western mountain coati, but may represent an undescribed taxon. Until 2009, the western mountain coati (then simply known as the mountain coati) usually included the eastern mountain coati as a…
Le coati de montagne (Nasua olivacea) est une espèce de mammifère carnivore de la famille des Procyonidae. On rencontre ce coati nain dans Nord des Andes en Amérique du Sud. Autrefois traditionnellement considéré comme étant le seul membre du genre Nasuella, séparé des coatis de plus grande taille qui appartiennent au genre Nasua, sa classification fut remise en question fortement par la phylogénie moléculaire du XXIe siècle.
El coatí andino o cusumbo andino (Nasuella olivacea) es un pequeño mamífero prociónido perteneciente al Orden Carnivora, que habita al norte de América de Sur en Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela. Distribución El coatí andino habita en la cordillera de los Andes de Colombia, oeste de Venezuela, Ecuador y en algunas áreas del norte del Perú. La especie se halla desde los 1.
Distribution
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