Order Carnivora Author James H. Honacki Author Kenneth E. Kinman Author James W. Koeppl text 1982 Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections Lawrence, Kansas, USA Editor James H. Honacki Editor Kenneth E. Kinman Editor James W. Koeppl Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition) 244 289 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7352980 1ce75501-9bd6-4f4f-b9de-34a393211f7b 0-89327-235-3 7352980 Genetta genetta (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:45 . TYPE LOCALITY: Spain , El Pardo, near Madrid . DISTRIBUTION: Africa, N. W. of the Sahara to Libya ; Egypt ; Palestine ; Iberia ; Balearic Isis.; and S. France to the Rhone River. COMMENT: Rosevear, 1974:193 , separated senegalensis from genetta ; but see Coetzee, 1977, Part 8:20, Kingdon, 1977:136- 143 , and Cabral, 1969, Bol. Inst. Invest. Cient. Angola , 6(1):3— 33. Schlawe, 1980, considered senegalensis a subspecies of G. felina . Includes afra, bonapartei, barbara , terraesanctae, rhodanica, and isabelae; see Schlawe, 1980, Faun. Abh. Staat. Mus. J. Tierk., Dresden, 7(15): 147 — 161, who also provisionally separated felina from genetta ; but also see Coetzee, 1977, Part 8:20; Ansell, 1978:39 ; and Cabral, 1969, Bol. Inst. Invest. Cient. Angola , 6(1):3—33. ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005001003001.