Cryptoproctinae Gray, 1865

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 340

Subfamily Cryptoproctinae Gray, 1865 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864:508 [1865].

COMMENTS: Type genus: Cryptoprocta Bennett, 1833 , by monotypy ( Melville and Smith, 1987). Considered a subfamily of felids by Gregory and Hellman (1939) and Beaumont (1964). There is disagreement as to the proper subfamilies for the Malagasy viverrids; see Pocock (1915a), Petter (1974), and Wozencraft (1989a, b).