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GENUS Atilax
Author: | F. G. Cuvier, 1826. | Citation: | In E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, pt. 3, 5(54): "Vansire," 2 pp., 1 pl.. | Type Species: | Herpestes paludinosus G. [Baron] Cuvier (1829), by original designation (Melville and Smith, 1987). | Comments: | Fredga's (1972) comparative chromosome study of mongooses suggested that recognition of Atilax as distinct from Herpestes would make Herpestes paraphyletic. However, allozyme data support Atilax as the first early offshoot of the main herpestine branch (Taylor et al., 1991). |
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