Ring-tailed vontsira

Ring-tailed vontsira
Montagne d'Ambre National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Eupleridae
Genus: Galidia
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1837
Species:
G. elegans
Binomial name
Galidia elegans
Ring-tailed vontsira range
Skull and dentition, as illustrated in Gervais' Histoire naturelle des mammifères

The ring-tailed vontsira (Galidia elegans), locally still known as the ring-tailed mongoose, is a euplerid in the subfamily Galidiinae, a carnivoran native to Madagascar.[2] It is the only species in the genus Galidia.

  1. ^ Hawkins, F. (2015). "Galidia elegans". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T39426A45204213. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T39426A45204213.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". 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. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.