Cryptoprocta ferox Bennett, 1833 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833:46.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Madagascar " .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Madagascar.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: typicus A. Smith, 1834 .

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Köhncke and Leonhardt (1986, Mammmalian Species, 254).