Ictonyx libyca (Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833)

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 : 607

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11345403
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scientific name	Ictonyx libyca (Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833)
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Ictonyx libyca (Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833) View in CoL

[Mustela] libyca Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833 View in CoL , Symb. Phys. Mamm., vol. 1, pt. 2, sig. K: verso.

Type Locality: "Libyae" [ Libya].

Vernacular Names: Saharan Striped Polecat.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Ictonyx libyca subsp. libyca Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833

Subspecies Ictonyx libyca subsp. multivittata Wagner 1841

Subspecies Ictonyx libyca subsp. oralis Thomas and Hinton 1920

Subspecies Ictonyx libyca subsp. rothschildi Thomas and Hinton 1920

Distribution: Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Thomas and Hinton (1920), and Baryshnikov and Abramov (1997, 1998) placed it in Poecilictis . Synonyms allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman et al. (1953).