12. On the Feet and Glands and other External Characters of the Viverrinæ, with the description of a New Genus.
1915; Zoological Society of London; Volume: 85; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1469-7998.1915.00131.x
ISSN0370-2774
Autores Tópico(s)Identification and Quantification in Food
ResumoPage Feet of Viverra zibetha 132 " Civettictis (gen.nov.) civetta 134 " Viverricula malaccensis and V. rasse 136 " Genetta 136 Feet as a Test of Specialisation 139 Vibrissse and Rhinarium of Viverrinse 140 Perfume Glands of Genetta 142 ., ,, Viverra zibetha, 145 " ,, Viverricula rasse 147 ,, ,, Civettictis civetta 147 Apart from Genetta, which occurs in South Europe, the Viverrine Carnivores, in the restricted sense in which that term is here employed *, are limited to the Ethiopian and Oriental Regions, and Viverra is the only genus hitherto considered to be both Ethiopian and Oriental f.The following species are included in it : -V.civetta of tropical Africa, and V. zibetha, civettina, megaspila, and tangalunga, which collectively range from western India as far eastward as southern China, Borneo, and the Philippines.It is the main purpose of the present paper to show that the wide discontinuity in distribution between the African and Asiatic forms is paralleled by structural differences in the glands and feet, necessitating generic recognition (see p. 134) J.Descriptions of the feet of Viverra may be found in various memoirs, text-books, and natural histories.These need not be enumerated since the descriptions appear either to be mere copies of previous records dating back at least to 1842, when Hodgson described and figured the hind feet of V. zibetha, or to have been derived, like Blanford's account, from Indian species only.It is quite true that statements regarding the feet of V. civetta have * I use the term Viverrinae for the little group popularly called Civets and Genets, and commonly referred to the three genera, Viverra, Viverricula, and Genetta'.Fossa, Linsang, and Poiana are here eliminated from this subfamily.f The occurrence of Viverricula in Sokotra, the Comoro Islands, and Madagascar must surely he assigned to human agency.X Mr. Oldfield Thomas (P. Z. S. 1911, p. 137) has shown that the type of Viverra is zibetha ; and since he agreed with Schreber and other early post-Linnasan authors, who have been followed in this particular by subsequent writers, in restricting the term zibetha to the so-called large Indian Civet,
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