Procyon lotor

Translingual right|thumb|A common raccoon (Procyon lotor) Etymology From mul-tax Procyon pre-canine lotor washer. Carl Linnaeus, the father of modern taxonomy, placed the raccoon in the genus mul-tax Ursus bears, first as mul-tax Ursus cauda elongata long-tailed bear in the second edition of his Systema Naturae (1740), then as mul-tax Ursus lotor washer bear in the tenth edition (1758–59). In 1780, Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr placed the raccoon in its own genus Procyon, which can be translated as either 'before the dog' or 'doglike'. It is also possible that Storr had its nocturnal lifestyle in mind and chose the star Procyon as eponym for the species. Despite being shortlived, Ursus lotor (“washer bear”) was calqued into many languages – see mul-tax Ursus lotor its descendants. Proper noun Procyon lotor la 1 m species family Procyonidae raccoon mul-tax obsolete Ursus lotor Ursus cauda elongata Hypernyms species Carnivora order - order; Procyonidae family - family; Procyoninae subfamily - subfamily; Procyon genus - genus Hyponyms species Procyon lotor auspicatus subspecies, Procyon lotor elucus subspecies, Procyon lotor excelsus subspecies, †Procyon lotor fuscipes subspecies, Procyon lotor gloveralleni subspecies, Procyon lotor grinnelli subspecies, Procyon lotor hernandezii subspecies, Procyon lotor hirtus subspecies, Procyon lotor incautus subspecies, Procyon lotor inesperatus subspecies, Procyon lotor insularis subspecies, Procyon lotor litoreus subspecies, Procyon lotor lotor subspecies (eastern raccoon), Procyon lotor marinus subspecies, Procyon lotor maynardi subspecies, Procyon lotor megalodous subspecies, Procyon lotor pacificus subspecies, Procyon lotor pallidus subspecies, Procyon lotor psora subspecies, Procyon lotor pumilus subspecies, Procyon lotor simus subspecies, Procyon lotor vancouverensis subspecies - subspecies References 1 1 1