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What (who) is viverrid - definition
FAMILY OF MAMMALS
Viverrid; Viverrids; Viverrine
viverrid
[v?'v?r?d, v??-]
¦ noun Zoology a mammal of the civet family (Viverridae).
Origin
early 20th cent.: from mod. L. Viverridae, from L. viverra 'ferret'.
Viverrine
·adj Of or pertaining to the Viverridae, or Civet family.
List of viverrids
SPECIES IN MAMMAL FAMILY VIVERRIDAE
List of viverrid species; User:PresN/civets; List of genets
Viverridae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, composed mainly of the civets and genets. A member of this family is called a viverrid.
Wikipedia
Viverridae
Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, feliform mammals. The viverrids () comprise 33 species placed in 14 genera. This family was named and first described by John Edward Gray in 1821. Viverrids occur all over Africa, southern Europe, and South and Southeast Asia, across the Wallace Line. Their occurrence in Sulawesi and in some of the adjoining islands shows them to be ancient inhabitants of the Old World tropics.
The name comes from the Latin word viverra, meaning "ferret", but ferrets are in a different family, the Mustelidae.
