Poiana Gray, 1865 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864:507, 520 [1865].

TYPE SPECIES: Genetta richardsonii Thomson, 1842, by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Pocock (1933d) believed it very likely that richardsonii pocessed scent glands and therefore separated it from Prionodon, although it is the loss of scent glands in Prionodon which is derived (Wozencraft, 1984).