Crossarchus obscurus F. G. Cuvier, 1825

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 302

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scientific name	Crossarchus obscurus F. G. Cuvier, 1825
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Crossarchus obscurus F. G. Cuvier, 1825 View in CoL . In E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, pt. 3, 5(47), "Mangue" 3 pp.

TYPE LOCALITY: "côtes occidentales de l'Afrique, et vraisemblablement des parties qui sont au midi de la Gambie " restricted by Cuvier (1829:158) to " Sierra Leone " .

DISTRIBUTION: Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.

SYNONYMS: platycephalus Goldman, 1984 ; somalicus Thomas, 1895.

COMMENTS: Goldman (1984, 1987) separated central (C. platycephalus ) from western (C. obscurus ) African populations based on phenetic differences in skull proportions. Wozencraft (1989b) argued for consideration of these populations as conspecific. Reviewed by Goldman (1987, Mammalian Species, 290).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Herpestidae
Genus	Crossarchus