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 Family Viverridae REVIEWED BY: P. Grubb (PG); H. J. Stains (HJS); S. Wang (SW); W. C. Wozencraft (WCW). COMMENT: Does not include subfamilies Herpestinae Gill, 1872 (=Mungotidae Pocock, 1916) or Galidiinae Gill, 1872 , (=Galidiina Gray, 1865); see Pocock, 1916, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1916:349; Gregory and Hellman, 1939 , Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 81 (3):309-392; Wurster and Benirschke, 1968 , Chromosoma, 24:336-382; Thenius, 1972 , Grund. Verbreit. Saugetierk., pp. 223-224; Radinsky, 1975 , J. Mammal., 56:130- 150; Wemmer, 1977, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 239:2. The Viverridae differ from the Herpestidae in the shape and structure of the basicranial region, presence of perineal glands, civetone secretions, ear bursa, and marker chromosomes (WCW). ISIS NUMBER: 5301412005000000000.