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title: "Mountain Coati"
description: "Nasua olivacea — Mammiferi. The western mountain coati or western dwarf coati (Nasuella olivacea) is a small procyonid, found in cloud forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,300–4,250 metres (4,270–13,940 ft) in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/mountain-coati
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Mountain Coati

> Nasua olivacea — Mammiferi. The western mountain coati  or western dwarf coati (Nasuella olivacea) is a small procyonid, found in cloud forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,300–4,250 metres (4,270–13,940 ft) in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador.

- Scientific name: *Nasua olivacea*
- Category: `mammals` (Mammiferi)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta), `mountains` (Montagne)
- iNaturalist observations: 473
- Wikidata: [Q40529359](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40529359)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1431872](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1431872)

## Names

- en: Mountain Coati
- de: Bergnasenbär
- es: Cusumbo andino
- fr: Coati de montagne

## Countries with the most observations

CO (220), EC (139), PE (16)

## Summary

The western mountain coati  or western dwarf coati (Nasuella olivacea) is a small procyonid, found in cloud forest and páramo at altitudes of 1,300–4,250 metres (4,270–13,940 ft) in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. A population discovered in the Apurímac–Cuzco region of southern Peru (more than 1,000 km or 620 mi south of the previous distribution limit) has tentatively been identified as the western mountain coati, but may represent an undescribed taxon.
Until 2009, the western mountain coati (then simply known as the mountain coati) usually included the eastern mountain coati as a subspecies, but that species…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasuella_olivacea

## Photo

![Mountain Coati](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mountain-coati/medium.jpg)

Photo: russnamitz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/200019291

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mountain-coati?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).