Viverra Linnaeus, 1758 . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:43.

TYPE SPECIES: Viverra zibetha Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation (Sclater, 1900; Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Pocock (1933b) placed civettino and megaspila in Moschothera which was not recognized by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), Wang (in Gao, 1987), or Wozencraft (1989b). Does not include Civettictis; see Kingdon (1977) and Ansell (1978); but also see Coetzee (1977b).