Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 315

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scientific name

Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)
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Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776) View in CoL . Die Säugethiere, 3(18):pl. 125 (1776); text, 3(26):450[1777].

TYPE LOCALITY: "Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung" [ South Africa, Cape Prov., Cape of Good Hope) .

DISTRIBUTION: Savanna and steppe from Nepal, E India and Turkmenistan west to Lebanon, south of the Mediterranean to South Africa.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( Ghana and Botswana).

SYNONYMS: abyssinica Hollister, 1910 ; brockmani Wroughton and Cheesman, 1920 ; buchanani Thomas, 1925 ; concisa Thomas and Wroughton, 1907; cottoni Lydekker, 1906; inauritus Hodgson, 1836 ; indicus Kerr, 1792 ; leuconota Sclater, 1867 ; maxwelli Thomas, 1923; mellivorus Cuvier, 1798 ; pumilio Pocock, 1946; ratei Sparrmann, 1778; ratelus Fraser, 1862 ; sagulata Hollister, 1910 ; signata Pocock, 1909; typicus Smith, 1833 ; vernayi Roberts, 1932; wilsoni Cheesman, 1920 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Mustelidae

Genus

Mellivora

Loc

Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993
1993
Loc

Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)

Schreber 1776: 125
1776
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