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References

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• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79
• Kuban,J., S. 1985. Nectar as a diet item of the ringtail cat. Southwestern Naturalist, 30(2): 311-312.
• Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 16, 2011 at http://animaldiversity.org. http://www.animaldiversity.org
• Original description: Lichtenstein, H., 1830.  Erlauterungen der Nachrichten des Fran. Hernandez von den vierfussigen Thieren Neuspaniens, p. 119.  Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin, 89-128.
• Poglayen-Neuwall, I, 1990. Procyonids. Pp. 450-453 in Parker,S.P., ed. Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Mammals, Vol 3. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Poglayen-Neuwall,I., 1988. Bassariscus astutus. The American Society of Mammalogists, 327: 1-8.
• Richard Weigl (2005) Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World. Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe 48: Stuttgart.
• Trapp,G., 1972. Some anatomical and behavioral adaptations of ringtails. Journal of Mammalogy, 53(3): 549-557.
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 1993. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207
• Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds. 2005. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142
• Wilson, Don E., and F. Russell Cole. 2000. Common Names of Mammals of the World. xiv + 204