Poiana leightoni Pocock 1907

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 : 558

Poiana leightoni Pocock 1907

Poiana leightoni Pocock 1907 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1907: 1043.

Type Locality: "fifteen to twenty miles [24 to 32 km] west of the Putu Mountains, which lie west of the Duobe and Cavally Rivers. The Cavally River is the eastern boundary line between Liberia and the Côte d’Ivoire, and the Duobe is one of its tributaries joining the Cavally about seventy miles [113 km], as the crow flies, from its mouth, after running for over one hundred miles [161 km] nearly parallel to the main stream" [ Liberia].

Vernacular Names: Leighton's Linsang.

Synonyms: Poiana liberiensis Pocock 1908 .

Distribution: Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia.

Conservation: IUCN – Data Deficient as P. richardsonii liberiensis .

Discussion: Pocock (1907 b:1045) mentioned that there was one specimen in the British Museum labeled " Sierra Leone ", but he believed that the "locality is probably erroneous." Coetzee (1977 b) considered leightoni a lapsus and replaced with liberiensis .