Nasuella olivacea

Western Mountain Coati
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Procyonidae
Genus:	Nasuella
Species:	N. olivacea
Binomial name
Nasuella olivacea (Gray, 1865)

The Western Mountain Coati or Western Dwarf Coati (Nasuella olivacea) is a small procyonid, found in cloud forest and paramo at altitudes of 1,300–4,250 metres (4,300–13,940 ft) in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador.^[1] It may also occur in far northern Peru, but this has not been confirmed yet.^[1] Until 2009, it usually included the Eastern Mountain Coati as a subspecies, but that species is overall smaller, somewhat shorter-tailed on average, has markedly smaller teeth, a paler olive-brown pelage, and usually a dark mid-dorsal stripe on the back (versus more rufescent or blackish, and usually without a dark mid-dorsal stripe in the Western Mountain Coati).^[1] When the two are combined, they are rated as Data Deficient by the IUCN,^[2] but no rating is available when the two are split.^[1]

There are two subspecies of the Western Mountain Coati: N. o. olivacea and the slightly smaller and darker N. o. quitensis with less distinct rings on the tail.^[1] The former is known from Colombia and the latter from Ecuador, but the exact distribution limit between the two is not known.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Helgen, K. M., R. Kays, L. E. Helgen, M. T. N. Tsuchiya-Jerep, C. M. Pinto, K. P. Koepfli, E. Eizirik, and J. E. Maldonado (2009). Taxonomic boundaries and geographic distributions revealed by an integrative systematic overview of the mountain coatis, Nasuella (Carnivora: Procyonidae). Small Carnivore Conservation. 41: 65–74
2. ^ Reid, F. & Helgen, K. (2008). "Nasuella olivacea". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/14357. Retrieved 14 February 2011.