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 Subfamily Viverrinae Gray, 1821 . London Med. Repos., 15:301 . COMMENTS: Type genus: Viverra Linnaeus, 1758 , by original designation ( Melville and Smith, 1987 ). Pocock (1933d) and Gregory and Hellman (1939) placed Poiana and Prionodon in the Prionodontinae, considered a sister group to the remaining viverrines. This was not followed by Gill (1872) , Simpson (1945) , Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) , Rosevear (1974) , and Wozencraft (1989b) .