Paradoxurinae

Paradoxurinae
Binturong (Arctictis binturong)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Viverridae
Subfamily: Paradoxurinae
Gray, 1864
Genera

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Paradoxurinae is a subfamily of the feliform viverrids that was denominated and first described by John Edward Gray in 1864.[1] Pocock subordinated the genera Paradoxurus, Paguma and Arctictis to this subfamily.[2][3]

  1. ^ Gray, J. E. (1864). "A revision of the genera and species of viverrine animals (Viverridae), founded on the collection in the British Museum". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1864: 502–579.
  2. ^ Pocock, R. I. (1933). "The rarer genera of oriental Viverridae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 103 (4): 969–1035. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb01638.x.
  3. ^ Pocock, R. I. (1939). "Paradoxurinae". The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Mammalia. Volume 1. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 376–439.