
Civettictis civetta (Schreber, 1777). Saugethiere, 3:418, 587. TYPE LOCALITY: Guinea. DISTRIBUTION: Zululand and Transvaal (South Africa) to Tanzania, N. Namibia, and Angola; C. and E. Africa to S. Somalia through Ethiopia to Kordofan (Sudan), and to Senegal in W. Africa. COMMENT: Some authors have placed this species in Viverra; see Coetzee, 1977, Part 8: 17; but also see Ansell, 1978:38, who placed this species in Civettictis. Rosevear, 1974:167, noted differences in scent glands; Petter, 1969, Mammalia, 33: 607-635, discussed dental differences. PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix III as Viverra civetta (Botswana). ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005005001001 as Viverra civetta.
Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, pp. 244-289 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 265, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352980
Viverridae, Mammalia, Carnivora, Animalia, Civettictis civetta, Biodiversity, Civettictis, Chordata, Taxonomy
Viverridae, Mammalia, Carnivora, Animalia, Civettictis civetta, Biodiversity, Civettictis, Chordata, Taxonomy
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