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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER FELIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Viverridae
--> SUBFAMILY Viverrinae
--> GENUS Genetta
SPECIES Genetta genetta
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 45. | | Common Name: | Common Genet | | Type Locality: | "oriente juxta rivos", restricted by Linnaeus (1766) to "oriente juxta rivos, Hispania", later listed by Thomas (1911a) as "Spain". Cabrera (1914), synonymizing G. peninsulae, further restricted the type locality to "El Pardo, cerca de Madrid" [Spain, El Pardo, near Madrid (40°32'N, 3°46'W)]. | | Distribution: | Algeria, Angola, Arabia, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. | | Status: | IUCN – Vulnerable as G. g. isabelae, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Schlawe (1981) included afra, bonapartei, barbar, barbara, balearica, lusitanica, melas, peninsulae, pyrenaica, terraesanctae, rhodanica, and isabelae; and provisionally separated into G. felina the following: guardafuensis, hararensis, leptura, senegalensis, dongolana, granti, neumanni, bella, pulchra, and ludia, which are included here, following Crawford-Cabral (1966a, 1969; 1981a), Coetzee (1977b), Smithers (1983), and Wozencraft (1984, 1989b). Reviewed by Crawford-Cabral (1966a, 1969, 1981a), Schlawe (1981), and Larivière and Calzada (2001). Rosevear (1974) separated senegalensis from genetta. However, this was not followed by Coetzee (1977b), Kingdon (1977), Ansell (1978), Crawford-Cabral (1981a), or Wozencraft (1989b). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman et al. (1953), Schlawe (1981), Wozencraft (1984), and Larivière and Calzada (2001). |
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