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 Ichneumia I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1837 . Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (Paris), 8(2):251 . TYPE SPECIES: Herpestes albicaudus G. [Baron] Cuvier, 1829, by designation of Geoffroy SaintHilaire (1839) ( Melville and Smith, 1987 ).