South American coati
| South American coati Temporal range: Pleistocene to Holocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Procyonidae |
| Genus: | Nasua |
| Species: | N. nasua |
| Binomial name | |
| Nasua nasua (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
| Subspecies | |
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13, see text | |
| South American coati range. Note: Also found in west Ecuador, and west and north Colombia, see text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Viverra nasua Linnaeus, 1766 | |
The South American coati (Nasua nasua), also known as the ring-tailed coati or brown-nosed coati, is a coati species and a member of the raccoon family (Procyonidae), found in the tropical and subtropical parts of South America. An adult generally weighs from 2–7.2 kg (4.4–15.9 lb) and is 85–113 cm (33–44 in) long, with half of that being its tail. Its color is highly variable and the rings on the tail may be only somewhat visible, but its most distinguishing characteristic is that it lacks the largely white snout (or "nose") of its northern relative, the white-nosed coati.