Ichneumia albicauda (G. [Baron] Cuvier, 1829) . Regn. Anim., Nouv. ed., 21:158.

TYPE LOCALITY: "l'Afrique australe et le Sénégal " .

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Yemen, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

SYNONYMS: abuwudan Fitzinger and Heuglin, 1866; albescens I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1839; almodovari Cabrerra, 1902; dialeucos Hollister, 1916; ferox Heller, 1913; grandis Thomas, 1890; haagneri Roberts, 1924; ibeanus Thomas, 1904; leucurus Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833; loandae Thomas, 1904; loempo Temminck, 1853; nigricauda Pucheran, 1855.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Taylor (1972, Mammalian Species, 12).