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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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SPECIES leightoni

SPECIES richardsonii

SUBSPECIES richardsonii

SUBSPECIES ochracea

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