Civettictis civetta (Schreber 1776)

[Viverra] civetta Schreber 1776, Die Saugethiere, Vol. 3, 16: pl. 111 [1776]; see also text 3 (24): 418, 3: index, p. 587 [1777].

Type Locality: " Guinea, Kongo, das Vorgebirge der guten Hofnung und Aethiopien", restricted by Allen (1924:117) to " Guinea ".

Vernacular Names: African Civet.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Civettictis civetta subsp. civetta Schreber 1776

Subspecies Civettictis civetta subsp. australis Lundholm 1955

Subspecies Civettictis civetta subsp. congica Cabrera 1929

Subspecies Civettictis civetta subsp. pauli Kock, Künzel and Rayaleh 2000

Subspecies Civettictis civetta subsp. schwarzi Cabrera 1929

Subspecies Civettictis civetta subsp. volkmanni Lundholm 1955

Distribution: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (Botswana); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Ray (1995) reviewed this species. Some authors have placed this species in Viverra, (see Coetzee, 1977); most have followed Pocock (1915 b), who placed this species in Civettictis . Rosevear (1974) noted differences in scent glands; G. Petter (1969) discussed dental differences. Synonyms allocated according to Kock et al. (2000 c).