Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310
Parent taxon: Viverroidea according to A. Hassanin et al. 2021
See also Bonaparte 1850, Carroll 1988, Cope 1875, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Flynn and Galiano 1982, Gaubert et al. 2004, Gray 1821, Hendey 1974, Hunt 1989, Hunt 1998, Jaekel 1911, Kurten 1968, Mivart 1882, Morlo et al. 2007, Nowak 1991 and Wilson and Reeder 2005
Sister taxa: Eupleridae, Herpestidae, Hyaenidae
Subtaxa: Africanictis Arctogalidiinae Cryptoproctinae Cynogalinae Euboictis Galidictinae Genettinae Hemigalinae Herpestina Hyaenina Kanuites Ketketictis Leptoplesictis Lophocyoninae Megaviverra Mioprionodon Paradoxurinae Prionodontinae Progenetta Sahelictis Vishnuictis Viverrinae
Ecology: scansorial carnivore-insectivore