Mountain Coati

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Mountain Coati
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Procyonidae
Genus: Nasuella
Hollister, 1915
Species: N. olivacea
Binomial name
Nasuella olivacea
(Gray, 1865)

The Mountain Coati or Dwarf coati (Nasuella olivacea) is a small procyonid, the only member of the genus Nasuella, found in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. It is not a true coati, but a considerably smaller and rarer animal.

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