The eastern lowland olingo (''Bassaricyon alleni'') is a species of olingo from

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, where it is known from the lowlands east of the

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in Bolivia,

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, Colombia,

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, Guyana,

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and

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.Bassaricyon alleni - Allen's Olingo
NatureServe.org It is the only olingo species found east of the

. The Latin species name honors

Joel Asaph Allen Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, and ornithologist. He became the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union, the first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of ...

, the American zoologist who first described the genus ''Bassaricyon''.

Description

The eastern lowland olingo is smaller than the northern olingo, but larger than the recently described

olinguito The olinguito (''Bassaricyon neblina'') is a mammal of the raccoon family Procyonidae that lives in montane forests in the Andes of western Colombia and Ecuador. It was classified as belonging to a new species in 2013. The specific name ''nebl ...

("little olingo"), the most montane member of the genus. 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

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. The pelage is slightly darker than the western species. It has a head-body length of , with a tail length of . It weighs .

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.

Notes

Procyonidae Carnivorans of South America Fauna of the Amazon Mammals of Bolivia Mammals of Brazil Mammals of Colombia Mammals of Ecuador Mammals of Peru Mammals of Venezuela Mammals described in 1880 Least concern biota of South America Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas {{carnivora-stub