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--> GENUS Civettictis
SPECIES Civettictis civetta
Author: | Schreber, 1776. | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 3(16): pl. 111[1776]; see also text 3(24):418, 3:index, p. 587[1777]. | Common Name: | African Civet | Type Locality: | "Guinea, Kongo, das Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung und Aethiopien", restricted by Allen (1924:117) to "Guinea". | Distribution: | Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (Botswana); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Ray (1995) reviewed this species. Some authors have placed this species in Viverra, (see Coetzee, 1977); most have followed Pocock (1915b), who placed this species in Civettictis. Rosevear (1974) noted differences in scent glands; G. Petter (1969) discussed dental differences. Synonyms allocated according to Kock et al. (2000c). |
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