Viverra civettina Blyth 1862

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 558

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11344220

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scientific name

Viverra civettina Blyth 1862
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Viverra civettina Blyth 1862 View in CoL

Viverra civettina Blyth 1862 View in CoL , J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 31: 332.

Type Locality: "Southern Malabar" restricted by Pocock (1933 a:446) to "Travancore" [ India] .

Vernacular Names: Malabar Large-spotted Civet.

Distribution: Endemic to S India.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( India); U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Considered a subspecies of V. megaspila by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951); however, considered at the specific level by Lindsay (1928), Pocock (1941 a), and Wozencraft (1984, 1989 b). Corbet and Hill (1992) raised doubts as to their separation.

ESA

Universidade de São Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Viverridae

Genus

Viverra

Loc

Viverra civettina Blyth 1862

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005
2005
Loc

Viverra civettina

Blyth 1862: 332
1862
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