Bdeogale Peters 1850

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 562

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Bdeogale Peters 1850 , Spenersche Z., 25 June, 1850: (unpaginated).

Type Species: Bdeogale crassicauda Peters 1852

Synonyms: Beleogale Marshall 1873 ; Galeriscus Thomas 1894 .

Species and subspecies: 3 species with 5 subspecies:

Species Bdeogale crassicauda Peters 1852

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. crassicauda Peters 1852

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. nigrescens Sale and Taylor 1970

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. omnivora Heller 1913

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. puisa Peters 1852

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. tenuis Thomas and Wroughton 1908

Species Bdeogale jacksoni Thomas 1894

Species Bdeogale nigripes Pucheran 1855

Discussion: Matschie (1895), Pocock (1916 a), Coetzee (1977 b), Kingdon (1977), and Meester et al. (1986) included Galeriscus Thomas (1894) . Rosevear (1974) believed that no one had advanced any "reasoned argument" for combining Galeriscus with Bdeogale , and followed Schoutenden (1945) and Hill and Carter (1941) who considered them distinct; all have agreed that jacksoni and nigripes are sister taxa.