Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830)

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 : 267

Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830) . Spicil. Zool., 2:9.

TYPE LOCALITY: C. Senegal .

DISTRIBUTION: Africa, south of the Sahara to Bioko; Angola, Botswana and Natal ( South Africa).

COMMENT: May be conspecific with tigrina ; see Coetzee, 1977, Part 8:22; Schlawe, 1980, Faun. Abh. Staat. Mus. J. Tierk., Dresden, 7(15): 147— 161; Pringle, 1977, Ann. Natal Mus., 23(1): 93-115; but also see Ansell, 1978:39. Includes pardina , amer (sensu Schwartz, 1930, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 19:275-286), poensis, deorum, genettoides, rubiginosa , suahelica, fieldiana, aequatorialis, stuhlmanni, and bini (not a synonym of servalina ); see Schlawe, 1980, Faun. Abh. Staat. Mus. J. Tierk., Dresden, 7(15): 147 — 161. See also Cabral, 1969, Bol. Inst. Invest. Cient. Angola, 6(1):3—33, who considered maculata to consist of two species, poensis, and pardina (including rubiginosa ).

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005001005001 as G. pardina .