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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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