Civettictis Pocock, 1915 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1915:134.

TYPE SPECIES: Viverra civetta Schreber, 1776, by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Included in Viverra by Coetzee (19776); recognized as Civettictis by Rosevear (1974), Kingdon (1977), Ansell (1978), Smithers (1983), and Wozencraft (19896).