Civettictis civetta (Schreber, 1777)

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 244-289 : 265

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.7352980

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7205613

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scientific name

Civettictis civetta (Schreber, 1777)
status

 

Civettictis civetta (Schreber, 1777) View in CoL . 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 .

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Viverridae

Genus

Civettictis