Order Carnivora Author W. Christopher Wozencraft text 1993 Smithsonian Institution Press Washington and London Editor Don E. Wilson Editor DeeAnn M. Reeder Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition) 279 348 book chapter http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7359191 1-56098-217-9 7359191 Mustela africana Desmarest, 1818 . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 9:376 . TYPE LOCALITY: "Africa", type locality is in error, fixed by Cabrera (1958) as "arrabales de Belem, la antigua Parâ." [ Brazil ] DISTRIBUTION: Amazon Basin in Brazil , Ecuador , and Peru . SYNONYMS: paraensis Goeldi, 1897; stolzmanni Taczanowski, 1881 . COMMENTS: Youngman (1982) placed africana in subgenus Grammogale . Izor and de la Torre (1978) suggested that africana and felipei form a monophyletic group. Cabrera (1958) considered Grammogale a valid genus.