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Civettictis civetta

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Civettictis civetta (Schreber, 1777). Saugethiere, 3:418, 587.

TYPE LOCALITY: Guinea.

DISTRIBUTION: Zululand and Transvaal (South Africa) to Tanzania, N. Namibia, and Angola; C. and E. Africa to S. Somalia through Ethiopia to Kordofan (Sudan), and to Senegal in W. Africa.

COMMENT: Some authors have placed this species in Viverra; see Coetzee, 1977, Part 8: 17; but also see Ansell, 1978:38, who placed this species in Civettictis. Rosevear, 1974:167, noted differences in scent glands; Petter, 1969, Mammalia, 33: 607-635, discussed dental differences.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix III as Viverra civetta (Botswana).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005005001001 as Viverra civetta.

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 265, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

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Related works

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Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980 (DOI)
Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF92FFAAFFD85854B97E533CFFF8E771 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03AB87D2FFCD5841B98F5BD5FB6EEDDA (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/205120943 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/193269/taxon/03AB87D2FFCD5841B98F5BD5FB6EEDDA.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Schreber
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Viverridae
Genus
Civettictis
Species
civetta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Civettictis civetta (Schreber, 1777) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp.
  • Rosevear, D. R. 1974. The carnivores of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 723: 1 - 548.