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bilobed; sole of foot in front and at the sides of plantar pad quite naked; 
claws longer, unsheathed, less retractile. Africa. 
J435 Civettictis (Viverra i) civetta (Schreb., 1777, Saugthiere, v. 3, 418, pi. Ill 
(1776) [Viverra i]) Pocock, 1915, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, v. 1, March 26, 
134. African civet, civet-cat, afrikanische Zibethkatze, civet kat, Civette, 
Lisisi, Mpicamadhloti (i. e., "that which puzzles spirits", so-called because of 
its shy and secretive habits). Africa, south to Mashonaland and eastern 
Transvaal. 
Babesia tl73. — Blood. 
civettae. — Senegal — T. h. 
Isospora tl61. 
viverrae. — Epithelium of small in- 
test.— S. Africa T. h. 
Dipylidium fSOS.— Intest. 
monoophorum. — Tunis N. Africa. — 
T. h. 
triseriale. — Tunis *, N. Africa. — T. h. 
Ancylostoma t387. — Intest. 
^ceylanicum. 
]duodenale. 
Amblyomma fSSl. — Ext. 
]hehraeum. 
Haemaphysalis t869. — Ext. 
^leachi ^ leachi. — Liberia. 
Ctenocephalides tl639.— Ext. 
"jcanis. — Belgian Congo. 
#435 [Civettictis] (Viverra 0 civetta orientalis (Matschie, 1892, Sitz.-Ber. 
GeseUsch. Naturf. Fr., Berhn, 140, 229 [Viverra i]). East Africa. 
Haemaphysalis t869. — Ext. 
'fleachi. — Tanganyika. 
Rhipicephalus 1875. 
"fsimus. 
#436 (435). Halves of the gland not excavate to form a pouch as in Civettictis; 
metatarsal pad absent; carpal pad not so markedly bilobed; sole of foot 
partially or wholly hairy; claws shorter, more retractile. See #437. 
#437 (438). Viverra Linn., 1758a, 43, tsd. (1900; 1904; 1911) zihetha Linn.— 
Oriental civets, Zibethkatze. Pollex and hallux (as in Genetta and Civet- 
tictis) low down, their digital pads approximately on a level with the postero- 
lateral angle of the plantar pad; claws of 3d and 4th digits of fore foot 
guarded by large skin-lobes (at least in Viverra zihetha). Fur rather long 
and loose, and in mid line of neck and back elongated to form an erectile 
black dorsal crest or mane. Teeth 40: i. 3/3, c. 1/1, pm. 4/4, m. 2/2; teeth 
stouter and less compressed than in the other genera; 2d upper molar especi- 
ally larger. Orbit of skull incomplete; auditory bulla smaller- and more 
pointed in front. Body shorter and stouter; legs longer; tail shorter, taper- 
ing, ringed, not prehensile. Claws strongly curved, rather short, blunt, 
only partially retractile; soles completely clothed with. hair. Neck with a 
black gorget. Pupil oblong, vertical, circular when contracted. Scent- 
glands present (prescrotal in cf cf , and in corresponding position in $ 9 ) ; the 
secretion, known as civet, escapes by a number of minute orifices into a large 
sac, the external opening of which appears as a longitudinal slit, resembling a 
large vaginal aperture. The 2 anal glands which surround the anus secrete 
an offensive odor. Tropical Asia. 
#437 Viverra ' abyssinica Riippell, 1835, 33. Syn. Viverra ^ abissinica"" 1894. 
So. #428 Genetta abyssinica, q. v. 
#437 Viverra ^ bondar Blainv. in Desm., 1820, Encycl. meth., Mamm. (1), 210. 
So. #427 Paradoxurus bondar, q. v. 
#437 Viverra i capensis Schreb., 1777, Saugth., v. 3, 450, pi. 125 (1776); Erxl., 
1777, Syst. Anim., 493. So. #538 Mellivora capensis, q. v. 
#437 Viverra » caudivolvula PaUas in Schreb., 1777, Saugth., v. 3, 453, pi. 125B 
(1776). So. #568 Potos * caudivolvula, q. v. 
