Poecilogale albinucha (Gray 1864)

[Zorilla] albinucha Gray 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864: 69.

Type Locality: "it was without any habitat". Fixed by Coetzee (1977 b) as " Cape Colony" .

Vernacular Names: African Striped Weasel.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Poecilogale albinucha subsp. albinucha Gray 1864

Subspecies Poecilogale albinucha subsp. bechuanae Roberts 1931

Subspecies Poecilogale albinucha subsp. doggetti Thomas and Schwann 1904

Subspecies Poecilogale albinucha subsp. lebombo Roberts 1931

Subspecies Poecilogale albinucha subsp. transvaalensis Roberts 1926

Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Dem. Rep. Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Larivière (2001). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman et al. (1953).