Eastern lowland olingo
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The eastern lowland olingo (Bassaricyon alleni) is a species of olingo from South America, where it is known from the lowlands east of the Andes in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela.[1][2] It is the only olingo species found east of the Andes.[3] The Latin species name honors Joel Asaph Allen, the American zoologist who first described the genus Bassaricyon.[4]
Description
The eastern lowland olingo is smaller than the northern olingo, but larger than the recently described olinguito ("little olingo"), the most montane member of the genus.[3] It is larger than the western lowland olingo subspecies B. medius medius from west of the Andes, but about the same size as the B. m. orinomus subspecies from eastern Panama.[3] The pelage is slightly darker than the western species.[3]
It has a head-body length of Template:Convert, with a tail length of Template:Convert.[3] It weighs Template:Convert.[3]
Taxonomy
The closest relative of the eastern lowland olingo is the western lowland species, B. medius, from which it diverged about 1.3 million years ago.[3]