Subfamily Euplerinae Chenu, 1852 . Ency. Hist. Nat., 21:165.

COMMENTS: Type genus: Eupleres Doyère, 1835, by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987) for those who consider Eupleres and Hemigalus in different family groups. There is disagreement as to the subfamilies for Malagasy viverrids; Pocock (1915a) placed Fossa in the SE Asian Hemigalinae . The evidence for this is weak (Albignac, 1973; Wozencraft, 1989a). Gregory and Hellman (1939), Albignac (1974), and Petter (1974), placed it in Fossinae; however, Eupleridae Chenu, 1852, is the senior synonym.