Mustela africana Desmarest, 1818

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 321

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7288547
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scientific name	Mustela africana Desmarest, 1818
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Mustela africana Desmarest, 1818 View in CoL . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 9:376.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Africa", type locality is in error, fixed by Cabrera (1958) as "arrabales de Belem, la antigua Parâ." [ Brazil]

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

SYNONYMS: paraensis Goeldi, 1897; stolzmanni Taczanowski, 1881 .

COMMENTS: Youngman (1982) placed africana in subgenus Grammogale . Izor and de la Torre (1978) suggested that africana and felipei form a monophyletic group. Cabrera (1958) considered Grammogale a valid genus.