Suricata Desmarest, 1804 . Tabi. Méth. Hist. Nat., in Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 24:15.

TYPE SPECIES: Suricata capensis Desmarest, 1804 (= Viverra suricatta Erxleben, 1777), by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987).