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GENUS Poiana
Author: | Gray, 1864. | Actual Date: | 1865 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864: 507, 520. | Type Species: | Genetta richardsonii Thomson, 1842, by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987). | Comments: | There are two widely separated (approximately 1600 km) allopatric populations of Poiana: the congo population (P. richardsonii), and the West African population, which Rosevear (1974) raised to the specific level (P. leightoni). Poiana records are few and scattered; however, recent reviews place leightoni as a separate species (de Beaufort, 1965; Gaubert et al., 2002b; Kingdon, 1977; Michaelis, 1972). |
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