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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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