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Zanzibar servaline genet

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Although the servaline was known to rural Zanzibaris, zoologists remained unaware of its existence until the last decade of the 20th century. In 1995 Tony Archer, a wildlife consultant working in Zanzibar, acquired a dried skin and skull in the village of Kitogani, in south-central Unguja. This
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of mainland Tanzania. These two animals have presumably been evolving independently since at least the end of the last
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Goldman, H.V. & Winther-Hansen, J. (2003). "First Photographs of the Zanzibar Servaline Genet,
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In January 2003 live Zanzibar servaline genets were photographed for the first time in nearby
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specimen was subsequently described as a new subspecies of servaline genet (
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The closest known relative of the Zanzibar servaline genet is
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Goldman, H.V.; Winther-Hansen, J. & Walsh, M.T. (2004).
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Feliformia
Viverridae
Genetta
G. servalina
Trinomial name
Van Rompaey
Colyn
subspecies
servaline genet
Unguja Island
Tanzanian
Zanzibar
Lowe's servaline genet
Eastern Arc Mountains
ice age
Africa
rising sea levels
Zanzibar leopard
Zanzibar red colobus
Jozani-Chwaka Bay National Park


"A New Servaline Genet (Carnivora, Viverridae) from Zanzibar Island"

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