Viverra

Viverra
Temporal range: Miocene–Present[1]
Illustration of Large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Viverridae
Subfamily: Viverrinae
Genus: Viverra
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Viverra zibetha
Species

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Viverra is a mammalian genus that was first named and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 as comprising several species including the large Indian civet (V. zibetha).[2] The genus was subordinated to the viverrid family by John Edward Gray in 1821.[3]

  1. ^ "Viverra". Paleobiology Database.
  2. ^ Linnaeus, C. (1758). "Viverra". Caroli Linnæi Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. (Editio decima, reformata ed.). Holmiae: Laurentii Salvii. pp. 43–44.
  3. ^ Gray, J. E. (1821). "On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals". London Medical Repository. 15 (1): 296–310.