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GENUS Hemigalus

Author:Jourdan, 1837.
Citation:C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 5: 442.
Type Species:Hemigalus zebra Jourdan, 1837 (= Paradoxurus derbyanus Gray, 1837) by monotypy.
Comments:Corbet and Hill (1992) included Chrotogale but excluded Diplogale. There is little question that these three taxa represent a monophyletic group and few would question that Diplogale is more closely related to Hemigalus than Chrotogale. Molecular studies by Veron and Heard (2000) supported the separation of Hemigalus and Chrotogale.
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Offspring:

SPECIES derbyanus

SUBSPECIES derbyanus

SUBSPECIES boiei

SUBSPECIES minor

SUBSPECIES sipora

Synonyms:

    Hemigale Gray, 1865
    Hemigalea Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and de Blainville, 1837

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