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GENUS Bdeogale

Author:Peters, 1850.
Citation:Spenersche Z., 25 June, 1850: (unpaginated).
Type Species:Bdeogale crassicauda Peters, 1852; by subsequent designation by Thomas (1882) (Melville and Smith, 1987).
Comments:Matschie (1895), Pocock (1916a), Coetzee (1977b), Kingdon (1977), and Meester et al. (1986) included Galeriscus Thomas (1894). Rosevear (1974) believed that no one had advanced any "reasoned argument" for combining Galeriscus with Bdeogale, and followed Schoutenden (1945) and Hill and Carter (1941) who considered them distinct; all have agreed that jacksoni and nigripes are sister taxa.
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Offspring:

SPECIES crassicauda

SUBSPECIES crassicauda

SUBSPECIES nigrescens

SUBSPECIES omnivora

SUBSPECIES puisa

SUBSPECIES tenuis

SPECIES jacksoni

SPECIES nigripes

Synonyms:

    Beleogale Marshall, 1873
    Galeriscus Thomas, 1894

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