Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small, nocturnal, chiefly arboreal mammals of the genus Bassaricyon of Central and South America, having a pointed snout and a long bushy tail.
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- noun A small
procyonid resembling thekinkajou , native to therainforests ofCentral andSouth America .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[American Spanish, howler monkey.]
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Examples
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As is the case with plants, the hotspot also holds a number of more widespread mammal species, including the jaguar (Panthera onca), Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii, EN), the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), and the olingo (Bassaricyon gabbii).
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Other mammals that have a restricted distribution include several opossums (Didelphis albiventris, Lutreolina crassicaudata, and Marmosa robinsoni), bats (Pteronotus davyi, Lonchorhina fernandezi, and Sturnira ludovici), an endemic olingo (Bassaricyon beddardi), and endemic rodents (Sciurus flammifer, Proechimys hoplomyoides, and Dasyprocta guamara).
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