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SPECIES Ictonyx libyca
Author: | Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833. | Citation: | Symb. Phys. Mamm., vol. 1(pt. 2, sig. K): verso. | Common Name: | Saharan Striped Polecat | Type Locality: | "Libyae" [Libya]. | Distribution: | Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Thomas and Hinton (1920), and Baryshnikov and Abramov (1997, 1998) placed it in Poecilictis. Synonyms allocated according to G. M. Allen (1939) and Ellerman et al. (1953). |
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