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The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) is a smaller relative of C. spelea that still survives.. Although some morphological differences between the two fossa species have been described, [17] these may be allometric (growth-related), and in their 1986 Mammalian Species account of the fossa, Michael Köhncke and Klaus Leonhardt wrote that the two were morphologically identical. [18]
Cryptoprocta is a genus of carnivoran endemic to Madagascar. It contains the living fossa and its larger, recently extinct relative, the giant fossa . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The fossas are the largest of Madagascar's mammalian carnivores.
An extinct relative of the fossa was described in 1902 from subfossil remains and recognized as a separate species, Cryptoprocta spelea, in 1935. This species was larger than the living fossa (with a body mass estimate roughly twice as great), but otherwise similar.
Cryptoprocta spelea, the giant fossa, is an extinct species from Madagascar in the family Eupleridae. Most closely related to the mongooses, the family includes all of Madagascar's carnivorans. The giant fossa was first described in 1902, and in 1935 was recognized as a separate species from its closest relative, the living fossa (Cryptoprocta ...
The best known species is the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), in the subfamily Euplerinae. ... † Giant fossa (C. spelea) Eupleres (Doyère, 1835) Eastern falanouc ...
The extinct giant fossa (Cryptoprocta spelea) had a body mass in range from 17 kg (37 lb) [196] to 20 kg (44 lb), [197] much larger than the modern fossa weighs (up to 8.6 kg (19 lb) for adult males [198]).
Cryptoprocta spelea Grandidier, 1902: Carnivora: before 1658 1: Lord Howe long-eared bat: Nyctophilus howensis McKean, 1975: Chiroptera: prior to 1972 1: Lord Howe Island, Australia Japanese otter: Lutra nippon. Imaizumi & Yoshiyuki, 1989. Carnivora: 1990s [19] Japan
Giant fossa (Cryptoprocta spelea): The fossil record of Madagascar has yielded the remains of a recently extinct fossa which was about a quarter larger than the living species, [8] making it close to the size of an ocelot. This species was believed to have preyed upon the larger lemurs that inhabited Madagascar until the island was settled by man.