Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, feliform mammals. The viverrids (/vaɪˈvɛrɪdz/) comprise 33 species placed in 14 genera. This family was...
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civet applies to over a dozen different species, mostly from the family Viverridae. Most of the species's diversity is found in southeast Asia. Civets do...
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However, omnivorous feliforms also exist, particularly in the family Viverridae. Many feliforms have retractile or semi-retractile claws and many are...
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"Integrative taxonomy and phylogenetic systematics of the genets (Carnivora, Viverridae, Genetta): a new classification of the most speciose carnivoran genus...
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Feliformia, containing both the family Viverridae, and the superfamily Herpestoidea. Infraorder Viverroidea Family Viverridae (civets and allies) Superfamily...
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the genera Prionodon and Poiana in the tribe Prionodontina, as part of Viverridae. Reginald Innes Pocock initially followed Gray's classification, but the...
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are not true cats but are closely related. Together with the Felidae, Viverridae, hyenas and mongooses, they constitute the Feliformia. All members of...
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Palawan binturong, is a subspecies of the binturong, a mammal in the family Viverridae. It is endemic to the island of Palawan in the Philippines. The Palawan...
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canids and many "dog-like" animals. The feliforms include the Felidae, Viverridae, hyena, and mongoose families, the majority of which live only in the...
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Lucien Bonaparte in 1845 who considered the mongooses a subfamily of the Viverridae. In 1864, John Edward Gray classified the mongooses into three subfamilies:...
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Viverridae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, composed mainly of the civets and genets. A member of this family is called a viverrid. They...
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"Integrative Taxonomy and Phylogenetic Systematics of the Genets (Carnivora, Viverridae, Genetta): A New Classification of the Most Speciose Carnivoran Genus...
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musk and civet oil, is the glandular secretion produced by both sexes of Viverridae species. A number of viverrid species secrete civet oil in their perineal...
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List of carnivorans (section Viverridae)
Eupleridae, Felidae, Herpestidae, Hyaenidae, Nandiniidae, Prionodontinae, and Viverridae, and include the cats, the hyenas, the mongooses and the viverrids, among...
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species classified in the mammalian subfamily Viverrinae, in the family Viverridae. There is one genus, Poiana. The name linsang is from Javanese linsang...
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The Viverrinae represent the largest subfamily of the Viverridae comprising three genera, which are subdivided into six species native to Africa and Southeast...
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dictionaries as "otter". The two African species belong to the family Viverridae and the two Asiatic species belong to the family Prionodontidae. Formerly...
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related to Hyaenidae in 2019, rather seems to belong somewhere between Viverridae and Herpestoidea. Zhou, Y.; Wang, S.-R.; Ma, J.-Z. (2017). "Comprehensive...
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of the South African large-spotted genet Genetta tigrina (Carnivora, Viverridae) in a coastal dune forest". Acta Theriologica. 52 (1): 45–53. doi:10.1007/BF03194198...
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(1864). "A revision of the genera and species of viverrine animals (Viverridae), founded on the collection in the British Museum". Proceedings of the...
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1776), of Djibouti representing a new subspecies (Mammalia, Carnivora, Viverridae)". Senckenbergiana Biologica. 80 (1/2): 241−246. Petter, G. (1969). "Interpretive...
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been introduced to Australia. Crown Feliformia (more specifically the Viverridae) are attested since the early Eocene, i. e. since about 50 million years...
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en. Retrieved 19 November 2021. Gray, J. E. (1832). "On the family of Viverridae and its generic sub-divisions, with an enumeration of the species of several...
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linsangs (Prionodon) are not, as was traditionally thought, members of the Viverridae (which does include the African linsangs), and may instead be the closest...
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Bennett originally placed the fossa as a type of civet in the family Viverridae, a classification that long remained popular among taxonomists. Its compact...
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