Crossarchus obscurus F. G. Cuvier 1825

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 : 563

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Crossarchus obscurus F. G. Cuvier 1825
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Crossarchus obscurus F. G. Cuvier 1825 View in CoL

Crossarchus obscurus F. G. Cuvier 1825 View in CoL , in: E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, Nat. Mammiferes, Hist., pt. 3, Vol. 5, 47: "Mangue, " 3 pp., 1 pl.

Type Locality: "côtes occidentales de l'Afrique, et vraisemblablement des parties qui sont au midi de la Gambie " restricted by F. G. Cuvier (1829:158) to " Sierra Leone ".

Vernacular Names: Common Kusimanse.

Synonyms: Crossarchus punctatissimus (Temminck 1853) .

Distribution: Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ghana (west of the Dahomey Gap).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Goldman (1984) separated central ( C. platycephalus ) from western ( C. obscurus ) African populations based on phenetic differences in skull proportions. Wozencraft (1989 b) argued that these populations are conspecific. Reviewed by Goldman (1987). The separation of C. platycephalus from C. obscurus has been generally supported by others ( Colyn and Van Rompaey, 1994).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Herpestidae

Genus

Crossarchus

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Crossarchus obscurus F. G. Cuvier 1825

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

Crossarchus obscurus

F. G. Cuvier 1825:
1825
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