Galerella Gray, 1865

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 302

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Galerella Gray, 1865 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864:564 [1865].

TYPE SPECIES: Herpestes ochraceus Gray, 1849 (= Herpestes sanguineus Rüppell, 1836 ) by original designation.

COMMENTS: Revised by Lynch (1981), Watson and Dippenaar (1987), Watson (1990), and Taylor et al. (1991) who considered these taxa a monophyletic group. CrawfordCabral (1989a:2) regarded these taxa as a "superspecies with several allospecies." These taxa are provisionally separated from Herpestes (sensu latu) following these revisions and reviews by Rosevear (1974), Ansell (1978), Smithers (1983), and Meester et al. (1986) (see discussion under Herpestes ).