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| Letaba genet | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Animalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Chordata |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Mammalia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Carnivora |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Feliformia |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Viverridae |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | Genetta |
| Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: | <div style="display:inline" class="script error: no such module "taxobox ranks".">G. letabae |
| Binomial name | |
| Genetta letabae Thomas and Schwann, 1906
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The Letaba genet (Genetta letabae) is a genet native to Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Eswatini. It is Lesotho and Eswatini's only endemic species of genet.
It was first described in 1906 on the basis of a zoological specimen collected in Knysna, South Africa.[1] It was formerly thought to be a subspecies of the rusty-spotted genet (G. maculata), but has been recognised as a distinct species in 2005.[2]
Wikidata ☰ Q106468476 entry