In 1950, Edward Alphonso Goldman identified the Barbados raccoon as a distinct species, a classification that has been challenged over the past years by other scientists, who assume that it was a subspecies of the common raccoon.
It was in 1950 that Edward Alphonso Goldman designated the Barbados raccoon as its own unique species, but this classification has been questioned by other researchers, who think it might be a smaller version of the common raccoon.