Suricata

Familia: Herpestidae
Subfamilia: Mungotinae
Genus:
Species: S. suricatta – †S. major

Suricata Desmarest, 1804: 15

• Type species: Suricata capensis Desmarest, 1804, by monotypy
• Gender: feminine [ICZN 1956: 76]

• Rhyzaena Wagner, 1841: 330
• Rysaena Lesson, 1827: 178
• Ryzaena Illiger, 1811: 134
• Surricata Gray, 1821: 302

• Desmarest, A.G. 1804. Tableau méthodique des mammifères. Pp. 5–38. BHL In: Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, Principalement à l'Agriculture et à l'Économie rurale et domestique XXIV. Paris: Deterville. BHL Reference page. 
• ICZN 1956. Opinion 384. Addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the names of fifty-two genera of the Order Carnivora (Class Mammalia) including twenty-nine from which have been reported parasites common to Man. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 12(5): 71–190. BHL Reference page. 
• Illiger, J.K.W. 1811. Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione germanica. C. Salfield: Berolini. xviii + 302 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, J.E. 1821. On the Natural Arrangement of Vertebrose Animals. London Medical Repository 15: 296–310. HathiTrust. Reference page.  
• Lesson, R.-P. 1827. Manuel de mammalogie, ou histoire naturelle des mammifères. J.-B. Baillière: Paris. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.137811 BHL Reference page. 
• Schreber, J.C.D. 1774–. Die Säugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen.
  • Theil 1 Theil 2 Theil 3 Theil 4 Theil 5 Theil 6 Theil 7 Plates Reference page. 

• Suricata in Mammal Species of the World.
  Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (Editors.) 2005. Mammal Species of the World – A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Third edition. ISBN 0-8018-8221-4.

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