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Suricata suricatta (meerkat)
Taxonomy
Viverra suricatta was named by Schreber (1776). It is extant.
It was recombined as Suricata suricatta by Desmarest (1804) and Mivart (1882).
It was recombined as Suricata suricatta by Desmarest (1804) and Mivart (1882).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1776 | Viverra suricatta Schreber |
| 1804 | Suricata suricatta Desmarest p. 16 |
| 1882 | Suricata suricatta Mivart p. 183 |
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Suricata suricatta Schreber 1776 [meerkat]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Ji et al. 2002, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Nowak 1991, Lillegraven 1979 | |||||
Age range: base of the Early/Lower Pleistocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 2.58800 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Pleistocene | South Africa (Gauteng) | Suricata suricatta (183152) | |
| Pleistocene | South Africa | Suricata suricatta (21825 21828 21829 21956) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa (Namaqualand) | Suricata suricatta (51187) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | South Africa | Suricata suricatta (115184) |