This article is about the extant family of carnivorans. For an extinct family of carnivorous mammals, see Viverravidae.
Viverridae[2]
Temporal range: 34–0 Ma
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Viverrids, including (top left to bottom right), species of Paradoxurus, Genetta, Paguma and Arctictis
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Carnivora
Suborder:
Feliformia
Infraorder:
Aeluroidea
Parvorder:
Viverroidea
Family:
Viverridae Gray, 1821
Type genus
Viverra
Linnaeus, 1758
Genera
Subfamily Genettinae
Genetta
Poiana
†Semigenetta
Subfamily Hemigalinae
Hemigalus
Chrotogale
Cynogale
Diplogale
Macrogalidia
Subfamily Paradoxurinae
Paradoxurus
Paguma
Arctictis
Arctogalidia
†Kanuites
†Kichechia
†Siamictis
†Tugenictis
Subfamily Viverrinae
Civettictis
Viverra
Viverricula
Distribution of living viverrid species
Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, feliform mammals. The viverrids (/vaɪˈvɛrɪdz/) comprise 33 species placed in 14 genera. This family was named and first described by John Edward Gray in 1821.[3] Viverrids occur all over Africa, southern Europe, and South and Southeast Asia, across the Wallace Line.[4]
Almost all viverrids outside the subfamily Genettinae are commonly called civets, but some civets are not viverrids. Animals of the subfamily Genettinae are known as genets and oyans. The word viverridae comes from the Latin viverra 'ferret', but ferrets are in a different family, the Mustelidae.
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^Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Family Viverridae". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 548–559. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^Gray, J. E. (1821). "On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals". London Medical Repository. 15 (1): 296–310.
^Pocock, R. I. (1939). "Family Viverridae". The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Mammalia. – Volume 1. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 330–332.
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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...
linsangs (Prionodon) are not, as was traditionally thought, members of the Viverridae (which does include the African linsangs), and may instead be the closest...
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...
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...
in the Banded Palm Civet, Hemigalus derbyanus Thomas, 1915 (Carnivora, Viverridae) by conventional staining, GTG-Banding and high-resolution techniques"...
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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and weasels Superfamily Feloidea G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817 Family Viverridae J. E. Gray, 1821 – civets and mongooses Family Hyaenidae J. E. Gray, 1821...
current families Viverridae, Herpestidae, and Eupleridae as well as some smaller groups, were classified in the single family Viverridae. Galidiines, which...
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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