Genetta genetta
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Genetta genetta (Linnaeus 1758)
[Viverra] genetta Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 45.
Type Locality: "oriente juxta rivos", restricted by Linnaeus (1766) to "oriente juxta rivos, Hispania", later listed by Thomas (1911 a) as " Spain ". Cabrera (1914), synonymizing G. peninsulae, further restricted the type locality to "El Pardo, cerca de Madrid " [Spain, El Pardo, near Madrid (40°32'N, 3°46'W)].
Vernacular Names: Common Genet.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. genetta Linnaeus 1758
Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. afra F. G. Cuvier 1825
Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. dongolana Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1832
Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. felina Thunberg 1811
Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. senegalensis J. B. Fischer 1829
Distribution: Algeria, Angola, Arabia, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as G. g. isabelae, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: Schlawe (1981) included afra, bonapartei, barbar, barbara, balearica, lusitanica, melas, peninsulae, pyrenaica, terraesanctae, rhodanica, and isabelae; and provisionally separated into G. felina the following: guardafuensis, hararensis, leptura, senegalensis, dongolana, granti, neumanni, bella, pulchra, and ludia, which are included here, following Crawford-Cabral (1966 a, 1969; 1981 a), Coetzee (1977 b), Smithers (1983), and Wozencraft (1984, 1989 b). Reviewed by Crawford-Cabral (1966 a, 1969, 1981 a), Schlawe (1981), and Larivière and Calzada (2001). Rosevear (1974) separated senegalensis from genetta. However, this was not followed by Coetzee (1977 b), Kingdon (1977), Ansell (1978), Crawford-Cabral (1981 a), or Wozencraft (1989 b). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman et al. (1953), Schlawe (1981), Wozencraft (1984), and Larivière and Calzada (2001).
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- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Viverridae
- Genus
- Genetta
- Species
- genetta
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Genetta genetta (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.
- Linnaeus, C. 1766 - 1768. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis synonymis, locis. Vol. 1. Regnum Animale. pt. 1, pp. 1 - 532 [1766]; vol. 3, Appendix pp. 223 - 235 [1768]. 12 th ed. [Vol. 3, Regnum Lapideum, pp. 1 - 222, rejected for nomenclatural purposes, ICZN, opinion 296]. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 3 vols.
- Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.
- Cabrera, A. 1914. Fauna Iberica. Mamiferos. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, 418 pp.
- Cuvier, F. G. 1825. Elephant d' Afrique. Pp. VI, in E. Geoffroy St. - Hilaire and F. Cuvier, Histoire Naturelle Mammiferes, 3 (52): 2.
- Schlawe, L. 1981. Material, Fundort, Text- und Bildquellen als Grundlagen fur eine Artenliste zur Revision der Gattung Genetta G. Cuvier, 1816 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Viverridae). Zoologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 37 (4): 85 - 182.
- Crawford-Cabral, J. 1966 a. Note on the taxonomy of Genetta. Zoologica Africana, 2: 25 - 26.
- Sludskii, A. A., S. N. Varshavskii, M. N. Ismagilov, V. I. Kapitonov, and I. G. Shubin. 1969. Mlekopitayushchie Kazakhstana [Mammals of Kazakhstan]. Vol. 1, Gryzuny (surki i susliki) [Rodents (Marmots and susliks)]. Nauka, Kazakhskoi SSR, Alma-Ata, 455 pp. (in Russian).
- Crawford-Cabral, J. 1981 a. A new classification of the genets. African Small Mammal Newsletter, 6: 8 - 10.
- Coetzee, C. G. 1977 b. Order Carnivora. Part 8. Pp. 1 - 42, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.
- Smithers, R. H. N. 1983. The mammals of the Southern African Subregion. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 736 pp.
- Wozencraft, W. C. 1984. A phylogenetic reappraisal of the Viverridae and its relationship to other Carnivora. Unpubl. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1129 pp.
- Wozencraft, W. C. 1989 b. Classification of the Recent Carnivora. Pp. 569 - 593, in Carnivore behavior, ecology and evolution (J. L. Gittleman, ed.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 620 pp.
- Rosevear, D. R. 1974. The carnivores of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 723: 1 - 548.
- Kingdon, J. 1977. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. (Carnivores). Academic Press, New York, 3 A: 1 - 476.
- Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp.