Viverridae
Appearance
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| Viverridae[1] | |
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| Sindry viverrids, includin (tap left tae bottom richt), species o Paradoxurus, Genetta, Paguma an Arctictis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Infraorder: | Viverroidea |
| Faimily: | Viverridae Gray, 1821 |
| Genera | |
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The Viverridae is a faimily o smaa tae middlin mammals, the viverrids, dealt intae 15 genera, that hae 33 species in total.[1] This faimily wis named an first describit bi John Edward Gray in 1821.[3]
Viverrids is fand outthrou the Oriental Region an even ayond it athort Wallace's line, athort Africae an passin intae soothren Europe. Thair occurrence in Sulawesi an in some o the adjynin isles shaws them tae be auncient indwallers o the tropics o the Auld Warld.[4]
References
[eedit | edit soorce]- 1 2 Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Family Viverridae". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 548–559. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ↑ Gaubert, P. & Cordeiro-Estrela, P. (2006). "Phylogenetic systematics and tempo of evolution of the Viverrinae (Mammalia, Carnivora, Viverridae) within feliformians: implications for faunal exchanges between Asia and Africa" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 41 (2): 266–278. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.034. PMID 16837215. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 4 October 2016. Retrieved 17 Julie 2019. Cite uses deprecated parameter
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- ↑ Gray, J. E. (1821). On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. London Medical Repository, 15(1): 296–310.
- ↑ Pocock, R. I. (1939). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. – Volume 1. Taylor and Francis, London. Pp. 330–332.
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