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Civettictis civetta (African civet)

civet [English]; siwetkat, Afrikaanse siwet, Afrika-siwet [Afrikaans]; Afrika Zibetkatze [German]; civette d'Afrique [French]; fungo [Swahili]; insimba [isiNdebele]; inyhwagi [isiXhosa]; iqaqa [isiZulu]; tsaparangaka [Sesotho]; tshipalore, tshipalôre, tshipa-nôre, tshipalere, tsaparangaka [Setswana]; bvungo [Shona]; lifungwe, imphicanadloti [siSwati]; fungwe [Xitsonga]; dhatshatsha, dzamatamanga, dzhatshatsha, dzambaranwaha, linyanganwaha, dzambarananga [Tshivenda]; nyangongo [Lozi]; !Noreb [Nama] [Damara]

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Synapsida (mammal-like reptiles) > Therapsida > Theriodontia >  Cynodontia > Mammalia (mammals) > Placentalia (placental mammals) > Laurasiatheria > Ferungulata > Ferae > Carnivora > Family: Viverridae (civets and genets) > Subfamily: Viverrinae

Civettictis civetta (African civet)

African civet, eastern Zambia. [photo Thomas Retterath ©]