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

description: <i>Genetta maculata</i> (Gray, 1830). Spicil. Zool., 2:9. TYPE LOCALITY: "in Africa Boreali". DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, French Equatorial Africa, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. SYNONYMS: <i>aequatorialis</i> Heuglin and Fitzinger, 1866; <i>albiventris</i> Schwarz, 1930; <i>amer</i> Gray, 1843; <i>bettoni</i> Thomas, 1902; <i>bini</i> Rosevear, 1974; <i>deorum</i> Funaiolo and Simonetta, 1960; <i>dubia</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>erlangen</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>fieldiana</i> Du Chaillu, 1860; <i>genettoides</i> Temminck, 1853; <i>gleimi</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>insularis</i> Cabrera, 1921; <i>letabae</i> Thomas and Schwann, 1906; <i>loandae</i> Matschie, 1930; <i>matschiei</i> Neumann, 1902; <i>pantherina</i> Hamilton-Smith, 1842; <i>pardina</i> I. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 1832; <i>poensis</i> Waterhouse, 1838; <i>pumila</i> Hollister, 1916; <i>rubiginosa</i> Pucheran, 1855; <i>schraderi</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>soror</i> Schwarz, 1929; <i>stuhlmanni</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>suahelica</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>zambesiana</i> Matschie, 1902; <i>zuluensis</i> Roberts, 1924. COMMENTS: Schlawe (1981) included <i>aequatorialis, amer (sensu</i> Schwartz, 1930), <i>bini</i> (not a synonym of <i>servalina), deorum, dubia, erlangen, fieldiana, genettoides, gleimi, insularis, letabae, matschiei, pantherina, pardina, poensis, pumila, rubiginosa, schraderi, stuhlmanni, suahelica,</i> and <i>zambesiana.</i> May be conspecific with <i>tigrina; see</i> Cotezee (1977b), Pringle (1977), and Schlawe (1981); but also see Ansell (1978) and Wozencraft (1984). Crawford-Cabral (1981) and Ansell (1978) placed genets west of the Dahomey Gap in <i>pardina</i> and southern and eastern populations in <i>rubiginosa</i> (except for the extreme southern <i>tigrina).</i>
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 346, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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