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SPECIES Civettictis civetta

Author:Schreber, 1776.
Citation:Die Säugethiere, 3(16): pl. 111[1776]; see also text 3(24):418, 3:index, p. 587[1777].
Common Name:African Civet
Type Locality:"Guinea, Kongo, das Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung und Aethiopien", restricted by Allen (1924:117) to "Guinea".
Distribution:Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Status:CITES – Appendix III (Botswana); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Ray (1995) reviewed this species. Some authors have placed this species in Viverra, (see Coetzee, 1977); most have followed Pocock (1915b), who placed this species in Civettictis. Rosevear (1974) noted differences in scent glands; G. Petter (1969) discussed dental differences. Synonyms allocated according to Kock et al. (2000c).
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SUBSPECIES civetta

SUBSPECIES australis

SUBSPECIES congica

SUBSPECIES pauli

SUBSPECIES schwarzi

SUBSPECIES volkmanni

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