#0382 · 🦊 mammals

Crab-eating Raccoon

🇳🇱 Krabbenetende Wasbeer ·Procyon cancrivorus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Rodrigo M. Ferronato · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ana Montti · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © pfaucher · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Markus Lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © João Vitor Oliveira de Souza · CC BY 4.0
6. © pfaucher · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Maick Campos Costa · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Nereston (Nelinho) Camargo · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Carlos Schmidtutz · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Leandro Cardoso · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The crab-eating raccoon ( Procyon cancrivorus ) is a species of raccoon native to marshy and jungle areas of Central and South America (including Trinidad and Tobago). It is found from Costa Rica south through most areas of South America east of the Andes down to northern Argentina and Uruguay. That it is called the crab-eating raccoon does not mean that only this species eats crabs, as the common raccoon also seeks and eats crabs where they are...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,455iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
3,455 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Georges Cuvier in 1798 (228 years ago).