Genetta genetta
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Viverridae
Genetta
Genetta genetta

description: <i>Genetta genetta</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:45. TYPE LOCALITY: "oriente juxta rivos", restricted by Linnaeus (1766) to "oriente juxta rivos, Hispania", later listed by Thomas (1911a) as " Spain ". Cabrera (1914), synonymizing G. <i>peninsulas,</i> further restricted the type locality to "El Pardo, cerca de Madrid " [Spain, El Pardo, near Madrid (40°32'N, 3°46'W)]. DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Arabia, Belgium, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Holland, Kenya, Lybia, Liberia, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Orange Free State, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. STATUS: IUCN - Rare as <i>G. g. isabelae.</i> SYNONYMS: <i>afra</i> F. G. Cuvier, 1825; <i>albipes</i> Trouessart, 1904; <i>balearica</i> Thomas, 1902; <i>barbar</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>barbara</i> Hamilton-Smith, 1842; <i>bella</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>bonapartei</i> Loche, 1857; <i>communis</i> Burnett, 1830; <i>dongolana</i> Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1833; <i>felina</i> Thunberg, 1811; <i>gallica</i> Oken, 1816; <i>grantii</i> Thomas, 1902; <i>guardafuensis</i> Neumann, 1902; <i>hararensis</i> Neumann, 1902; <i>hispanica</i> Oken, 1816; <i>leptura</i> Reichenbach, 1836; <i>ludia</i> Thomas and Schwann, 1906; <i>macrura</i> Jentink, 1892; <i>mêlas</i> de la Paz Graells, 1897; <i>neumanni</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>peninsulas</i> Cabrera, 1905; <i>pulchra</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>rhodanica</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>senegalensis</i> Fischer, 1829; <i>tedescoi</i> de Beaux, 1924; <i>terraesanctae</i> Neumann, 1902; <i>vulgaris</i> Lesson, 1827. COMMENTS: Subgenus <i>Genetta.</i> Schlawe (1981) included <i>afra, bonapartei, barbar, barbara, balearica, lusitanica, mêlas, peninsulae, pyrenaica, terraesanctae, rhodanica,</i> and <i>isabelae;</i> and provisionally separated into <i>G. felina</i> the following: <i>guardafuensis, hararensis, leptura, senegalensis, dongolana, granii, neumanni, bella, pulchra,</i> and <i>ludia,</i> which are included here, following Crawford-Cabral (1966, 1969; 1981), Coetzee (19776), Smithers (1983), and Wozencraft (1984, 1989b). Rosevear (1974) separated <i>senegalensis</i> from <i>genetta;</i> however, this was not followed by Coetzee (1977b), Kingdon (1977), Ansell (1978), Crawford-Cabral (1981), or Wozencraft (1989b). Wozencraft (1984) recognized four allopatric populations: <i>genetta</i> (Meditrerrean), <i>dongolana</i> (East African), <i>felina</i> (South African), and <i>senegalensis</i> (West African).
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 page 345, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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