Published December 31, 1982 | Version v1
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Mellivora capensis

Description

Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776). Saugethiere, pl. 125, text 1777, 3:450.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope.

DISTRIBUTION: Savanna and steppe from Nepal, E. India, and Turkmenia (U.S. S. R.) west to the Mediterranean, south to South Africa.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (Ghana and Botswana).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412004011001001.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 260, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schreber
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Mustelidae
Genus
Mellivora
Species
capensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982