Jabarkan Taksonomi dari Garangan berekor cokelat

Musang berekor coklat pertama kali dideskripsikan pada 1837 oleh zoologis Prancis Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire dengan nama Galidia unicolor dan Galidia olivacea. Ia ditempatkan dalam genus Galidia, bersama dengan musang berekor cincin (Galidia elegans), yang sekarang diakui sebagai satu-satunya spesies dari genus tersebut.

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