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GENUS Fossa
Author: | Gray, 1864. | Actual Date: | 1865 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864: 518. | Type Species: | Fossa d'aubentonii Gray, 1865 (= Viverra Fossana Müller, 1776). | Comments: | Veron (1995) and Gaubert et al. (2002b) suggested that Fossa could be separated from Viverridae based on morphological features. Molecular data (Yoder et al., 2003) showed close affinities with Cryptoprocta. |
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