Mustela africana Desmarest, 1818 . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 9:376.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Africa", type locality is in error, fixed by Cabrera (1958) as "arrabales de Belem, la antigua Parâ." [Brazil]

DISTRIBUTION: Amazon Basin in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

SYNONYMS: paraensis Goeldi, 1897; stolzmanni Taczanowski, 1881 .

COMMENTS: Youngman (1982) placed africana in subgenus Grammogale . Izor and de la Torre (1978) suggested that africana and felipei form a monophyletic group. Cabrera (1958) considered Grammogale a valid genus.