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<mods:title>Order Carnivora</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>W. Christopher Wozencraft</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Don E. Wilson</mods:namePart>
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<emphasis box="[212,370,1218,1257]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="304">Herpestes</emphasis>
Illiger, 1811
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TYPE SPECIES:
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<emphasis box="[513,813,1260,1299]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="304">Viverra ichneumon</emphasis>
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, by absolute tautonomy, through the replaced name
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<emphasis box="[647,819,1302,1341]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="304">Ichneumon</emphasis>
Lacépède, 1799
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(
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).
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COMMENTS: Revised by
<bibRefCitation author="Pocock, R. I." box="[685,913,1345,1383]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref289441" refString="Pocock, R. I. 1919. The classification of the mongooses (Mungotidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 3: 515 - 524." year="1919">Pocock (1919</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Pocock, R. I." box="[933,1014,1345,1383]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref290478" refString="Pocock, R. I. 1937. The mongooses of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 39 (2): 211 - 245." year="1937">1937</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Pocock, R. I." box="[1034,1127,1345,1383]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref290688" refString="Pocock, R. I. 1941 a. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. Vol. II. Carnivora (suborders Aeluroidae (part) and Arctoidae). Taylor and Francis, Ltd., London, 503 pp." year="1941">1941a</bibRefCitation>
) and
<bibRefCitation author="Bechthold, G." box="[1232,1524,1345,1383]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref25637" refString="Bechthold, G. 1939. Die asiatischen Formen der Gattung Herpestes. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 14: 113 - 219." year="1939">Bechthold (1939)</bibRefCitation>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Coetzee, C. G." box="[1544,1822,1345,1383]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref63824" refString="Coetzee, C. G. 1977 b. Order Carnivora. Part 8. Pp. 1 - 42, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated." year="1977">
Coetzee
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and Hayman
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<bibRefCitation author="Sanderson, I. T." box="[672,951,1385,1424]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref316129" refString="Sanderson, I. T. 1940. The mammals of the north Cameroon forest area. Being the results of the Percy Sladen expedition to the Mamfe Division of the British Cameroons. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 24: 623 - 725." year="1940">Sanderson, 1940</bibRefCitation>
) included
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<emphasis box="[1139,1284,1385,1424]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="304">Xenogale</emphasis>
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(see discussion under
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<taxonomicName authorityName="de Winton" authorityYear="1901" box="[1685,1760,1385,1424]" class="Mammalia" family="Herpestidae" genus="Herpestes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Carnivora" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="naso">naso</taxonomicName>
).
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<bibRefCitation author="Allen, J. A." box="[380,595,1427,1466]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref5970" refString="Allen, J. A. 1924. Carnivora collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 47: 73 - 281." year="1924">Allen (1924)</bibRefCitation>
, considered only
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<emphasis box="[902,1071,1427,1466]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="304">ichneumon</emphasis>
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in this genus and separated
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and
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into
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;
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for support, he contrasted the large
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with the smaller
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complex and reported proportional differences in measurements of skeleton and skull. His rationale has been repeated, in some cases verbatum, by
<bibRefCitation author="Rosevear, D. R." box="[623,900,1594,1633]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref310320" refString="Rosevear, D. R. 1974. The carnivores of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 723: 1 - 548." year="1974">Rosevear (1974)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Ansell, W. F. H." box="[920,1149,1594,1633]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref11178" refString="Ansell, W. F. H. 1978. The mammals of Zambia. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Chilanga, 126 pp." year="1978">Ansell (1978)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Smithers, R. H. N." box="[1168,1440,1594,1633]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref331906" refString="Smithers, R. H. N. 1983. The mammals of the Southern African Subregion. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 736 pp." year="1983">Smithers (1983)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Meester, J. A. J. &amp; I. L. Rautenbach &amp; N. J. Dippenaar &amp; C. M. Baker" box="[1461,1817,1594,1633]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref236076" refString="Meester, J. A. J., I. L. Rautenbach, N. J. Dippenaar, and C. M. Baker. 1986. Classification of southern African mammals. Transvaal Museum Monograph, 5: 1 - 359." year="1986">Meester et al. (1986)</bibRefCitation>
, and
<bibRefCitation author="Watson, J. P. &amp; N. H. Dippenaar" box="[456,969,1636,1675]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref383601" refString="Watson, J. P., and N. H. Dippenaar. 1987. The species limits of Galerella sanguinea (Ruppell, 1836), G. pulverulenta (Wagner, 1839) and G. nigrata (Thomas, 1928) in southern Africa (Carnivora: Viverridae). Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum Bloemfontein, 5 (14): 356 - 414." year="1987">Watson and Dippenaar (1987)</bibRefCitation>
.
<bibRefCitation author="Taylor, P. J. &amp; G. K. Campbell &amp; J. A. J. Meester &amp; D. van Dyk" box="[992,1316,1636,1675]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref349064" refString="Taylor, P. J., G. K. Campbell, J. A. J. Meester, and D. van Dyk. 1991. A study of allozyme evolution in African mongooses (Viverridae: Herpestinae). Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 56 (3): 135 - 145." year="1991">Taylor et al. (1991)</bibRefCitation>
presented an allozyme analysis and argued for generic recognition, however, they did not include Asiatic
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,
</emphasis>
and their consensus tree made the placement of the
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clade equivocal.
<bibRefCitation author="Fredga, K." box="[908,1171,1761,1801]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref108423" refString="Fredga, K. 1972. Chromosome studies in mongooses (Carnivora, Viverridae). Thesis summary, faculty of sciences of the University of Lund, 11 pp." year="1972">Fredga's (1972)</bibRefCitation>
comparative chromosome analysis looked at variation including Asiatic and African
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and based on this, recognition of
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would make
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paraphyletic. Comparison of measurements from
<bibRefCitation author="Allen, J. A." box="[733,945,1889,1927]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref5970" refString="Allen, J. A. 1924. Carnivora collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 47: 73 - 281." year="1924">Allen (1924)</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Rosevear, D. R." box="[966,1244,1889,1927]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref310320" refString="Rosevear, D. R. 1974. The carnivores of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 723: 1 - 548." year="1974">Rosevear (1974)</bibRefCitation>
, and
<bibRefCitation author="Smithers, R. H. N." box="[1339,1607,1889,1927]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref331906" refString="Smithers, R. H. N. 1983. The mammals of the Southern African Subregion. University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa, 736 pp." year="1983">Smithers (1983)</bibRefCitation>
for African forms, and
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and
<bibRefCitation author="Pocock, R. I." box="[956,1210,1931,1970]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref290688" refString="Pocock, R. I. 1941 a. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. Vol. II. Carnivora (suborders Aeluroidae (part) and Arctoidae). Taylor and Francis, Ltd., London, 503 pp." year="1941">Pocock (1941a)</bibRefCitation>
for Asiatic forms reveals that the large morphological gaps originally identified by
<bibRefCitation author="Allen, J. A." box="[1241,1454,1973,2012]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref5970" refString="Allen, J. A. 1924. Carnivora collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 47: 73 - 281." year="1924">Allen (1924)</bibRefCitation>
, dissolve when Asiatic species are included. Ellerman et al. (1953) and
<bibRefCitation author="Wozencraft, W. C." box="[1210,1541,2015,2053]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref395048" refString="Wozencraft, W. C. 1989 b. Classification of the Recent Carnivora. Pp. 569 - 593, in Carnivore behavior, ecology and evolution (J. L. Gittleman, ed.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 620 pp." year="1989">Wozencraft (1989b)</bibRefCitation>
suggested that differences between these taxa and other
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are less than those found within
<emphasis box="[379,546,2098,2137]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="304">
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.
</emphasis>
Morphological criteria similar to that used by
<bibRefCitation author="Allen, J. A." box="[1359,1569,2098,2137]" pageId="25" pageNumber="304" refId="ref5970" refString="Allen, J. A. 1924. Carnivora collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 47: 73 - 281." year="1924">Allen (1924)</bibRefCitation>
have mostly been used at the specific level in other carnivores. Although the case is not strong, many recent authors have recognized
<emphasis box="[1040,1181,2181,2220]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="304">Galerella</emphasis>
and this is provisionally followed here (see comments under
<emphasis box="[760,926,2223,2259]" italics="true" pageId="25" pageNumber="304">Galerella).</emphasis>
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