Mustela africana Desmarest, 1818 . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. Paris, 9:376.

TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, probably Para .

DISTRIBUTION: Amazon Basin in Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

COMMENT: Izor and de la Torre, 1978, J. Mammal., 59:92- 102, hypothesized a relationship between africana and felipei, and reopened the question of whether Grammogale is a distinct genus.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412004007001001.