Genetta genetta (Linnaeus 1758)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 555

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[Viverra] genetta Linnaeus 1758 View in CoL , Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 45 View Cited Treatment .

Type Locality: "oriente juxta rivos", restricted by Linnaeus (1766) to "oriente juxta rivos, Hispania", later listed by Thomas (1911 a) as " Spain ". Cabrera (1914), synonymizing G. peninsulae , further restricted the type locality to "El Pardo, cerca de Madrid " [ Spain, El Pardo, near Madrid (40°32'N, 3°46'W)] GoogleMaps .

Vernacular Names: Common Genet.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. genetta Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. afra F. G. Cuvier 1825

Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. dongolana Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1832

Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. felina Thunberg 1811

Subspecies Genetta genetta subsp. senegalensis J. B. Fischer 1829

Distribution: Algeria, Angola, Arabia, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable as G. g. isabelae, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Schlawe (1981) included afra, bonapartei, barbar, barbara , balearica, lusitanica, melas, peninsulae , pyrenaica, terraesanctae, rhodanica, and isabelae; and provisionally separated into G. felina the following: guardafuensis, hararensis, leptura, senegalensis , dongolana , granti, neumanni, bella , pulchra , and ludia, which are included here, following Crawford-Cabral (1966 a, 1969; 1981 a), Coetzee (1977 b), Smithers (1983), and Wozencraft (1984, 1989 b). Reviewed by Crawford-Cabral (1966 a, 1969, 1981 a), Schlawe (1981), and Larivière and Calzada (2001). Rosevear (1974) separated senegalensis from genetta . However, this was not followed by Coetzee (1977 b), Kingdon (1977), Ansell (1978), Crawford-Cabral (1981 a), or Wozencraft (1989 b). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman et al. (1953), Schlawe (1981), Wozencraft (1984), and Larivière and Calzada (2001).

References

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Cabrera, A. 1914. Fauna Iberica. Mamiferos. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, 418 pp.

Coetzee, C. G. 1977 b. Order Carnivora. Part 8. Pp. 1 - 42, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Crawford-Cabral, J. 1966 a. Note on the taxonomy of Genetta. Zoologica Africana, 2: 25 - 26.

Crawford-Cabral, J. 1981 a. A new classification of the genets. African Small Mammal Newsletter, 6: 8 - 10.

Cuvier, F. G. 1825. Elephant d' Afrique. Pp. VI, in E. Geoffroy St. - Hilaire and F. Cuvier, Histoire Naturelle Mammiferes, 3 (52): 2.

Kingdon, J. 1977. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. (Carnivores). Academic Press, New York, 3 A: 1 - 476.

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Rosevear, D. R. 1974. The carnivores of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 723: 1 - 548.

Schlawe, L. 1981. Material, Fundort, Text- und Bildquellen als Grundlagen fur eine Artenliste zur Revision der Gattung Genetta G. Cuvier, 1816 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Viverridae). Zoologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 37 (4): 85 - 182.

Sludskii, A. A., S. N. Varshavskii, M. N. Ismagilov, V. I. Kapitonov, and I. G. Shubin. 1969. Mlekopitayushchie Kazakhstana [Mammals of Kazakhstan]. Vol. 1, Gryzuny (surki i susliki) [Rodents (Marmots and susliks)]. Nauka, Kazakhskoi SSR, Alma-Ata, 455 pp. (in Russian).

Smithers, R. H. N. 1983. The mammals of the Southern African Subregion. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 736 pp.

Thomas, O. 1911 a. The mammals of the tenth edition of Linnaeus; an attempt to fix the types of the genera and the exact bases and localities of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911: 120 - 158.

Wozencraft, W. C. 1984. A phylogenetic reappraisal of the Viverridae and its relationship to other Carnivora. Unpubl. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1129 pp.

Wozencraft, W. C. 1989 b. Classification of the Recent Carnivora. Pp. 569 - 593, in Carnivore behavior, ecology and evolution (J. L. Gittleman, ed.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 620 pp.