Priodontes maximus Kerr, 1792

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Edentata, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 52-57 : 56

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scientific name	Priodontes maximus Kerr, 1792
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Priodontes maximus Kerr, 1792 . Anim. Kingdom, p. 112.

TYPE LOCALITY: French Guiana, Cayenne .

DISTRIBUTION: South America east of the Andes, from Venezuela to Guianas and Colombia, south to Salta, Formosa, Misiones and Chaco (N. Argentina).

COMMENT: Includes giganteus ; see Thomas, 1880, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1880:402; Allen, 1895, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 7: 187; Hershkovitz, 1959, J. Mammal., 40:350; Wetzel and Lovett, 1974, Univ. Conn. Occ. Pap. Biol. Sei. Ser., 2:209; Handley, 1976, Brigham Young Univ. Sei. Bull., 20(5): 44.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix I as P. giganteus (=tnaximus). U.S. ESA - Endangered as P. maximus (^ giganteus ).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301407003007001001 as P. giganteus .