Cryptoprocta ferox Bennett, 1833

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 244-289 : 266

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scientific name

Cryptoprocta ferox Bennett, 1833
status

 

Cryptoprocta ferox Bennett, 1833 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833:46.

TYPE LOCALITY: Madagascar .

DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar.

COMMENT: Beaumont, 1964, Ecolgae Geol. Helv., 57:837-845, placed ferox with the Felidae because of similarities in dental characters. Coetzee, 1977, Part 8:35; Thenius, 1972, Grund. Verbreit. Saugetierk., pp. 205-215, Radinsky, 1975, J. Mammal., 56: 140- 142, and Albignac, 1970, La Terre et la Vie, 24:395-402, placed ferox in the Viverridae . Hemmer, 1978, Carnivore, 1:72, suggested an intermediate position.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005034001001.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Viverridae

Genus

Cryptoprocta

Loc

Cryptoprocta ferox Bennett, 1833

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl 1982
1982
Loc

Cryptoprocta ferox

Bennett 1833: 46
1833
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