Poiana richardsonii (Thomson, 1842)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 347

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scientific name	Poiana richardsonii (Thomson, 1842)
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Poiana richardsonii (Thomson, 1842) View in CoL . Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10:204.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Fernando Po " [ Equatorial Guinea: Bioko].

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Zaire.

STATUS: IUCN - Indeterminate as P. r. liberiensis .

SYNONYMS: leightoni Pocock, 1908 ; poensis Mivart, 1882 .

COMMENTS: Rosevear (1974) raised leightoni to the specific level. Poiana records are few and scattered and recent studies placed leightoni as a subspecies; see de Beaufort (1965), Michaelis (1972), and Kingdon (1977).