Ictonyx Kaup 1835
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Ictonyx

description: <i>Ictonyx</i> Kaup, 1835. Das Thierreich in Seinen Hauptformen, 1:352. TYPE SPECIES: <i>Ictonyx capensis</i> Kaup, 1835 (= <i>Bradypus striatus</i> Perry, 1810) (Melville and Smith, 1987). SYNONYMS: <i>Ictidonyx</i> Agassiz, 1846; <i>Ictomys</i> Roberts, 1936; <i>Poecilictis</i> Thomas and Hinton, 1920; <i>Rhabdogale</i> Wiegmann, 1838; <i>Zorilla</i> I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826. COMMENTS: There is considerable controversy over the correct name for this genus (Herschkovitz, 1955b; Van Gelder, 1966). <i>Zorilla</i> Oken, 1816, is invalid (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1956b). <i>Zorilla</i> Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826, was suppressed under the plenary powers for the purposes of the Principle of Priority (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1967). Rosevear (1974) strongly suggested, and Dekeyser (1955) and Niethammer (1987a) argued that <i>Poecilictis</i> Thomas and Hinton, 1920, and <i>Ictonyx</i> are congeneric. The principal skull features used to erect the new genus by Thomas and Hinton (1920) could not be supported when a more extensive series of specimens was measured (Rosevear, 1974).
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on pages 318-319, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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