Family Viverridae Gray, 1821 . London Med. Repos., 1821:301.

COMMENTS: Type genus: Viverra Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation (Melville and Smith, 1987). Does not include subfamilies Herpestinae Bonaparte, 1845, or Galidiinae Gray, 1865; see Pocock (1916c, 1919), Gregory and Hellman (1939), Wurster and Benirschke (1968), Thenius (1972), Radinsky (1975), Hunt (1987), Flynn et al. (1988), and Wozencraft (1989a, b).