Genetta servalina Pucheran, 1855 . Rev. Mag. Zool. Paris, 7(2):154.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Gabon " .

DISTRIBUTION: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Kenya, Niger, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire.

SYNONYMS: aubryana Pucheran, 1855; bettoni Thomas, 1902; cristata Hayman, 1940; intensa Lönnberg, 1917.

COMMENTS: Includes cristata, bettoni, and aubryana, but not bini, which is here considered a junior synonym of maculata; see Crawford-Cabral (1970:323), Wenzel and Haltenorth (1972), Coetzee (1977b), and Schlawe (1981); but also see Rosevear (1974) and Crawford-Cabral (1981), who recognized cristata as a separate species.