Procyonids are members of the family Procyonidae, a clade of small to medium-sized carnivoran mammals within the order Carnivora, superfamily Musteloidea, that includes raccoons (Procyon), coatis (Nasua, Nasuella), kinkajous (Potos), ringtails and cacomistles (Bassariscus), and olingos and olinguito (Bassaricyon). They are predominantly omnivorous, with dentitions and gastrointestinal tracts adapted to flexible diets, and exhibit diverse locomotor and ecological specializations ranging from arboreal to terrestrial niches. Procyonids are primarily New World taxa, important in studies of adaptive radiation, behavioral ecology, and musteloid phylogeny, and they often function as mesopredators and seed dispersers in their ecosystems.
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