Genetta piscivora (aquatic genet)

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Subject:	Genetta piscivora (aquatic genet)
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Genetta piscivora (aquatic genet)

PLATE XIX
Habitat of Osbornictis piscivora J. A. Allen. One of the larger forest brooks at the height of the rainy season. Niapu, January 8, 1914. This represents the actual place where the type specimen was taken.

Genetta piscivora
Date 3 January 1914
Source https://archive.org/stream/bulletinamerican47ameruoft#page/n345/mode/1up
Author Richard Deckert
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Genetta_piscivora.jpg

The aquatic genet (Genetta piscivora) is a genet that has only been recorded in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. When Allen described the aquatic genet as a new genus and species in 1919, he named it Osbornictis piscivora. It was reassessed in 2004, and based on molecular evidence is now considered a Genetta species. Aquatic genets have only been recorded in rainforest east of the Congo River and in the Tshopo District at elevations from 460 to 1,500 m.

Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Viverridae
Genus: Genetta
Species: Genetta piscivora (Allen, 1919)

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