Raccoon

(Procyon lotor)

Range: North and Central America; from Canada to Panama

Subspecies

• P. l. lotor: Canadian Maritime provinces and parts of Quebec and Ontario, south through eastern US (From Lake Michigan to North Carolina)

• P. l.  auspicatus: Key Vaca and nearby islands in the Florida Keys

• P. l. elucus: Most of Peninsular Florida

• P. l. excelsus: Around the Snake River, Humboldt River, and other river valleys in the northwest US

• P. l. fuscipes: Most of Texas, southern Arkansas, Louisiana, and into northeastern Mexico (Coahuila and Nuevo León, to southern Tamaulipas)

• P. l. grinnelli: Southern Baja California

• P. l. hernandezii: Western, central, to southern Mexico, into Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua

• P. l. hirtus: Upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers drainage areas from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains east to Lake Michigan, as well as southern Manitoba in Canada

• P. l. incautus: Big Pine Key and other nearby islands in the Florida Keys

• P. l. inesperatus: Key Largo and other nearby islands in the Florida Keys

• P. l. insularis: Islas Marías, off western Mexico

• P. l. litoreus: Coastal areas and islands off Georgia in the southeast US

• P. l. marinus: Ten Thousand Islands off southern Florida, as well as in Cape Sable and through the Everglades into Lake Okeechobee

• P. l. maynardi: New Providence in the Bahamas

• P. l. megalodous: Southern Louisiana from St. Bernard Parish west to Cameron Parish

• P. l. minor: Guadeloupe in the Lesser Antilles

• P. l. pacificus: Pacific Northwest from the southwestern British Columbia, as well as western Washington, western Oregon, and northwestern California

• P. l. pallidus: Colorado and Gila rivers valleys, as well as adjoining territory from northeastern Utah and east to western Colorado and northwestern New Mexico

• P. l. psora: Most of California, as well as northern Baja California and parts of western Nevada

• P. l. pumilus: Western Panama

• P. l. crassidens: Costa Rica

• P. l. vancouverensis: Vancouver Island, off British Columbia

• P. l. simus: Parts of California (Extinct)

• P. l. gloveralleni: Barbados in the Lesser Antilles (Extinct)