Crested Servaline Genet

Crested Servaline Genet
Crested Servaline Genet[1]
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Viverridae
Genus: Genetta
Species: G. cristata
Binomial name
Genetta cristata
Hayman, 1940
Crested Servaline Genet range
Synonyms
  • bini Rosevear, 1974

The Crested Servaline Genet (Genetta cristata), also just known as the Crested Genet, is a mammal from the Carnivora order, family Viverridae, related to civets and linsangs. Its name comes from the small crest on the back of the animal's neck. It inhabits dry forest of south-eastern Nigeria.[2]. Its continued presence in southern Cameroon, and its presence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Gabon, are uncertain[2]

The Crested Servaline Genet is considered vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, due to loss of habitat and over-hunting.[2]

Some authorities have considered this species to be a subspecies of the Servaline Genet (Genetta servalina), but it is now generally regarded as a full species on its own.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds (2005). "Genetta cristata". Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14000389. 
  2. ^ a b c d Van Rompaey H, Gaubert P & Hoffmann M (2008). Genetta cristata. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2008-10-13.

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