viverrid

Scientific  

/ vī-vĕr′ĭd /

1. Any of various mostly small carnivorous mammals of the family Viverridae, having long, slender bodies with short legs and bushy tails. Viverrids include the civets, mongooses, meerkats, and binturong.

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Example Sentences

Viverrid and herpestid observations by camera and small mamal cage trapping in the lowland rainforests on Borneo including a record of Hose’s civet, Diplogale hosei.

From Scientific American

Given that giant flying squirrels are awesome and deeply weird I’m no less impressed by the Kayan Mentarang animal than I was when I thought it likely to be an unusual new viverrid.

From Scientific American

The image above, produced by Wahyu Gumelar for WWF Indonesia, was widely reproduced and clearly depicts the animal as a new, hitherto unknown viverrid.

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Other authors also interpreted the animal as a viverrid, but as a member of a known species, not a new one.

From Scientific American

Named in 1892 and known from less than 20 specimens, Hose’s civet is a poorly known, terrestrial, forest-dwelling viverrid.

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