Fossa Gray 1864

Fossa Gray 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864: 518.

Type Species: Fossa d'aubentonii Gray 1865

Species and subspecies: 1 species:

Species Fossa fossana (Müller 1776)

Discussion: Veron (1995) and Gaubert et al. (2002 b) suggested that Fossa could be separated from Viverridae based on morphological features. Molecular data (Yoder et al., 2003) showed close affinities with Cryptoprocta .