Viverridae

Viverridae; Temporal range: 34–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Eocene to Recent
	Viverrids (clockwise from top left): species of Paradoxurus, Genetta, Arctictis and Paguma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Infraorder:	Aeluroidea
Parvorder:	Viverroidea
Family:	Viverridae; Gray, 1821
Type genus
	Viverra; Linnaeus, 1758
Genera
	Subfamily Genettinae Genetta; Poiana; †Semigenetta; ; Subfamily Hemigalinae Hemigalus; Chrotogale; Cynogale; Diplogale; Macrogalidia; ; Subfamily Paradoxurinae Paradoxurus; Paguma; Arctictis; Arctogalidia; †Kanuites; †Kichechia; †Siamictis; †Tugenictis; ; Subfamily Viverrinae Civettictis; Viverra; Viverricula; ;
	Distribution of living viverrid species

Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized feliform mammals, comprising 14 genera with 33 species. This family was named and first described by John Edward Gray in 1821.^[3] Viverrids occur all over Africa, southern Europe, South and Southeast Asia across the Wallace Line.^[4] The word viverridae comes from the Latin word viverra.

The species of the subfamily Genettinae are known as genets and oyans. The viverrids of the subfamily Viverrinae are commonly called civets; the Paradoxurinae and most Hemigalinae species are called palm civets.

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^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Family Viverridae". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 548–559. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
^ Gray, J. E. (1821). "On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals". London Medical Repository. 15 (1): 296–310.
^ Pocock, R. I. (1939). "Family Viverridae". The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Mammalia. – Volume 1. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 330–332.