VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

VIVERRIDS

• These are the diverse are the old world carnivores. Most viverrids have scent glands in the anal region that can emit a strong smelling fluid and these scent materials secreted from the genera Civettictis, Vicerra, and Viverricula are called “civet”.
• These materials are having pheromone like effects. Location of these species should be well known in general for the attending veterinarian.

 

LOCATION OF VIVERRIDS

Viverrids	Place
Common palm civet (Toddy cat) (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)	Whole India except desert zones of Punjab and Sind
Brown palm civet (Paradoxurus jardoni)	North Kanara and hill ranges of South India
Himalayan palm civet (Peguma larvata)	Kashmir, Himalayas and Assam
Spotted linsang or Tiger civet (Prionodon pardicolor)	Assam and Sikkim
Binturang or Bear cat (Arctictis binturong)	Assam and Sikkim
Small Indian civet (Viverricula indica)	Through out India
Large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha)	Sikkim, Assam and upper Bengal
Common mongoose (Herpestes edwardsi)	Whole India
Small Indian mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus)	Northern India (Kashmir to Bengal, Orissa and Assam)
Stripe necked mongoose	Western ghats from north Kanara , southwards to some of he adjoining south India hill range
Crab eating mongoose (Herpestes urva)	Assam

OTHER VIVERRIDS

• African civets (Civettictis civetta)
•  Blotched genet (Genetta tigrina)
•  Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)
•  Malagasy fossa (Fossa fossa)
•  Yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicilata)
•  Banded mongoose (Mungos mungo)
•  Slender-tailed meercat (Suricata suricatta)