Mammal Species of the World - Browse: striatus

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SPECIES Ictonyx striatus

Author:

Perry, 1810.

Citation:

Arcana, Mus. Nat. Hist. Signature Y: Fig. [41][1810].

Common Name:

Striped Polecat

Type Locality:

"South America". This is clearly in error and Hollister (1918) fixed the type locality as "Cape of Good Hope". [South Africa].

Distribution:

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Status:

IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Comments:

Reviewed by Larivière (2002b). See Hollister (1918) on the use of this name. Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman et al. (1953).

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