Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 346

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scientific name

Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830)
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Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830) View in CoL . Spicil. Zool., 2:9.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in Africa Boreali" .

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, French Equatorial Africa, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

SYNONYMS: aequatorialis Heuglin and Fitzinger, 1866; albiventris Schwarz, 1930; amer Gray, 1843; bettoni Thomas, 1902; bini Rosevear, 1974; deorum Funaiolo and Simonetta, 1960; dubia Matschie, 1902; erlangen Matschie, 1902; fieldiana Du Chaillu, 1860; genettoides Temminck, 1853; gleimi Matschie, 1902; insularis Cabrera, 1921 ; letabae Thomas and Schwann, 1906; loandae Matschie, 1930; matschiei Neumann, 1902 ; pantherina Hamilton-Smith, 1842; pardina I. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 1832 ; poensis Waterhouse, 1838 ; pumila Hollister, 1916; rubiginosa Pucheran, 1855 ; schraderi Matschie, 1902; soror Schwarz, 1929 ; stuhlmanni Matschie, 1902 ; suahelica Matschie, 1902 ; zambesiana Matschie, 1902; zuluensis Roberts, 1924.

COMMENTS: Schlawe (1981) included aequatorialis, amer (sensu Schwartz, 1930), bini (not a synonym of servalina ), deorum, dubia, erlangen, fieldiana, genettoides, gleimi, insularis , letabae, matschiei , pantherina, pardina , poensis , pumila, rubiginosa , schraderi, stuhlmanni , suahelica , and zambesiana. May be conspecific with tigrina ; see Cotezee (1977b), Pringle (1977), and Schlawe (1981); but also see Ansell (1978) and Wozencraft (1984). Crawford-Cabral (1981) and Ansell (1978) placed genets west of the Dahomey Gap in pardina and southern and eastern populations in rubiginosa (except for the extreme southern tigrina ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Viverridae

Genus

Genetta

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Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830)

W. Christopher Wozencraft 1993
1993
Loc

Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830)

Gray 1830: 9
1830
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