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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within thesuborder Feliformia — thecivets etc..
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* Though note that recent phylogenetic studies have agreed that the traditional Viverridae is not monophyletic.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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* Though note that recent phylogenetic studies have agreed that the traditional Viverridae is not monophyletic.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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Phylogenetic systematics and tempo of evolution of the Viverrinae (Mammalia, Carnivora, Viverridae) within feliformians: implications for faunal exchange between Asia and Africa.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Exhaustive sample set among Viverridae reveals the sister-group of felids: the linsangs as a case of extreme morphological convergence within Feliformia.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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Phylogenetic systematics and tempo of evolution of the Viverrinae (Mammalia, Carnivora, Viverridae) within feliformians: implications for faunal exchange between Asia and Africa.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part I) Darren Naish 2007
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Exhaustive sample set among Viverridae reveals the sister-group of felids: the linsangs as a case of extreme morphological convergence within Feliformia.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Family Species Cercopithecidae Semnopithecus vetulus Viverridae Paradoxurus zeylonensis Muridae Mus fernandoni Muridae Vandeleuria nolthenii An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.
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The two tribes of the civets (Viverridae) and the weasels
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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The differences between the _Felidae_ and the _Viverridae_, setting aside minor details, are in the teeth, and the possession by the latter of a caudal pouch.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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_Viverridae_ are somewhat erratic in colouring, as in the Indian squirrels, and it is doubtful whether several recorded species are not so nearly allied as to be in fact properly but one and the same.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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