Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 346

Genetta maculata (Gray, 1830) . Spicil. Zool., 2:9.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in Africa Boreali" .

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, French Equatorial Africa, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

SYNONYMS: aequatorialis Heuglin and Fitzinger, 1866; albiventris Schwarz, 1930; amer Gray, 1843; bettoni Thomas, 1902; bini Rosevear, 1974; deorum Funaiolo and Simonetta, 1960; dubia Matschie, 1902; erlangen Matschie, 1902; fieldiana Du Chaillu, 1860; genettoides Temminck, 1853; gleimi Matschie, 1902; insularis Cabrera, 1921 ; letabae Thomas and Schwann, 1906; loandae Matschie, 1930; matschiei Neumann, 1902 ; pantherina Hamilton-Smith, 1842; pardina I. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 1832 ; poensis Waterhouse, 1838 ; pumila Hollister, 1916; rubiginosa Pucheran, 1855 ; schraderi Matschie, 1902; soror Schwarz, 1929 ; stuhlmanni Matschie, 1902 ; suahelica Matschie, 1902 ; zambesiana Matschie, 1902; zuluensis Roberts, 1924.

COMMENTS: Schlawe (1981) included aequatorialis, amer (sensu Schwartz, 1930), bini (not a synonym of servalina ), deorum, dubia, erlangen, fieldiana, genettoides, gleimi, insularis , letabae, matschiei , pantherina, pardina , poensis , pumila, rubiginosa , schraderi, stuhlmanni , suahelica , and zambesiana. May be conspecific with tigrina ; see Cotezee (1977b), Pringle (1977), and Schlawe (1981); but also see Ansell (1978) and Wozencraft (1984). Crawford-Cabral (1981) and Ansell (1978) placed genets west of the Dahomey Gap in pardina and southern and eastern populations in rubiginosa (except for the extreme southern tigrina ).