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African civet (Civettictis civetta)
Subject: African civet (Civettictis civetta)
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African civet (Civettictis civetta)


Viverra poortmanni = Civettictis civetta (Schreber, 1776)
Date 1871
Source Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871 (http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedingsofgen71zool#page/n383/mode/1up)
Author Joseph Smit (1836–1929) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smit
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ViverraPoortmanniSmit.jpg

The African civet (Civettictis civetta) is the largest representative of the African Viverridae and the sole member of its genus. It is considered common and widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa. Like all civets it has perineal glands that produce a fluid known as civet, which it spreads on markers in its territory to claim its range.

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Scientific Name: Civettictis civetta (Schreber, 1776)
Synonyms: Osbornictis civetta, Viverra civetta
Common Names:
English – African Civet
French – Civette africaine, Civette d'Afrique

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