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Taxon: Family Viverridae Gray, 1821 - civets, genets, linsangs, mongooses, and fossas (mammal)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Carnivora

Subsequent positions

Feliformia (Suborder) Kretzoi, 1945

Original entries

Questionably Cryptoproctinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1865
Questionably Euplerinae (Subfamily) Chenu, 1850
Questionably Legetetia (Genus) Schmidt-Kittler, 1987
Questionably Lophocyoninae (Subfamily) Fejfar & Schmidt-Kittler, 1987
Questionably Nandiniinae (Subfamily) (Pocock, 1929) Gregory & Hellman, 1939
Questionably Paradoxurinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1865
Questionably Stenoplesictinae (Subfamily) Schlosser, 1923
Questionably Viverrinae (Subfamily) Gray, 1821

Current position

Viverroidea (Infraorder) "Gray, 1821" Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).

Alternative positions

Aeluroidea (Infraorder) Flower, 1869 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 445.
Aeluroidea (Superfamily) Flower, 1869 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 633.
Carnivora (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 1993: 340.
Feliforma (Suborder) Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1043.
Feliformia (Suborder) Kretzoi, 1945 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 59.
Feloidea (Superfamily) Batsch, 1788

Historical positions

Viverroidea (Infraorder) "Gray, 1821" Ref: C.J. Burgin et al., 2020: table 2 (p. 27).
Aeluroidea (Infraorder) Flower, 1869 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2015: 445.
Feliformia (Suborder) Kretzoi, 1945 Ref: D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder, 2011: 59.
Aeluroidea (Infraorder) Flower, 1869 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: 402.
Feliformia (Suborder) Kretzoi, 1945 Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 2005: 548-549.
Feliformia (Suborder) Kretzoi, 1945 Ref: A. Turner, 1997
Feliformia (Suborder) Kretzoi, 1945 Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 235.
Carnivora (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: 1995
Carnivora (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 1993: 340; 6.
Carnivora (Order) Bowdich, 1821 Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991: 108.
Aeluroidea (Superfamily) Flower, 1869 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 633.
Feliforma (Suborder) Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1043.
Fissipedia (Suborder) (Blumenbach, 1791) Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Herpestoidea (Superfamily) Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 14g;33s;114ss; †13g
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000: 20 Feb 2022 [14g;33s;114ss; †13g]
2011 D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder: 59 14g;34s
2005 W.C. Wozencraft: 559 [15g;35s;119ss]
1997 M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell [19g; †13g]
1993 W.C. Wozencraft 20g;34s
1991 G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill [18g];~35s
1982 A.F. DeBlase 6sf;35g;72s
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Last updated: 1 Feb 2024