crab-eating raccoon


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Related to crab-eating raccoon: raccoon dog, Northern Raccoon
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Noun1.crab-eating raccoon - a South American raccooncrab-eating raccoon - a South American raccoon    
racoon, raccoon - an omnivorous nocturnal mammal native to North America and Central America
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simulans 0 0 (a) Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit); (b) Nymphicus hollandicus (Cockatiel); (c) Cerdocyon thous (Crab-eating fox); (d) Procyon cancrivorus (Crab-eating raccoon); (e) Lycalopex vetulus (Hoary fox); (f) Chrysocyon brachyurus (Maned wolf).
Procyon cancrivorus (crab-eating raccoon) belongs to the phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, and grouped in the Procyonidae family.
insularis) is native to the Tres Marias islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico, and the crab-eating raccoon (P.