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--> GENUS Genetta
SPECIES Genetta poensis
Author: | Waterhouse, 1838. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838: 59. | Common Name: | King Genet | Type Locality: | "Fernando Po " [Bioko Isl, Equatorial Guinea]. | Distribution: | Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Liberia, Republic of Congo. | Comments: | Considered conspecific with pardina-maculata by Schlawe (1981), Wozencraft (1993) and Grubb et al. (1998). Rosevear (1974) and Crawford-Cabral (1981a) discussed its taxonomic status. Erroneously used for designating cristata by Jeannin (1936) and Happold (1987). Gaubert et al. (2003a) proposed a specific status on the basis of coat pattern and hair ultrastructure, together with sympatric distribution with pardina and maculata. |
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