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--> GENUS Genetta
SPECIES Genetta tigrina
| Author: | Schreber, 1776. | | Citation: | Die Säugethiere, 3(17): pl. 115[1776]; see also text, 3(25):425 [1777]. | | Common Name: | Cape Genet | | Type Locality: | "von dem Vorgebirge der guten Hofnug" [South Africa, Western Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope]. | | Distribution: | South Africa. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | There is great confusion in the taxonomy of the pardina-rubiginosa (= maculata) tigrina complex. Some authors (Coetzee, 1977b; Meester et al., 1986) considered rubiginosa as conspecific with tigrina. Others believed that maculata may be conspecific with pardina (Ansell, 1978; Crawford-Cabral, 1966a; Pringle, 1977). Crawford-Cabral (1981a) later reversed his earlier opinion and considered three types to exist as separate species; (1) pardina, (2) rubiginosa (= maculata), and (3) tigrina. This was followed by Gaubert (2003) and Gaubert et al. (2003a, b). Roberts (1951) considered zambesiana, letabae, zuluensis, and albiventris as subspecies of maculata; whereas he limited tigrina to only two subspecies: tigrina and methi. Subspecies allocated according to Roberts (1951) and Crawford-Cabral and Pacheco (1992). |
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