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The fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox; / ˈ f ɒ s ə / FOSS-ə or / ˈ f uː s ə / FOO-sə; [3] Malagasy:) is a slender, long-tailed, cat-like mammal that is endemic to Madagascar.It is a member of the carnivoran family Eupleridae.
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]
The best known species is the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), in the subfamily Euplerinae. All species of Euplerinae were formerly classified as viverrids, while all species in the subfamily Galidiinae were classified as herpestids.
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.
Members of this subfamily, which include the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), falanoucs (Eupleres goudotii and Eupleres major) and Malagasy civet (Fossa fossana), were placed in families like Felidae and Viverridae before genetic data indicated their consanguinity with other Madagascar carnivorans. Within the subfamily, the falanouc and Malagasy ...
Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) Meerkat (Suricata suricatta) Binturong (Arctictis binturong) Seven families are extant, with 12 subfamilies, 56 genera, and 114 species in the Feliformia suborder. They range natively across all continents except Australia and Antarctica. Most species are ...
The Malagasy or striped civet (Fossa fossana), also known as the fanaloka (Malagasy, [fə̥ˈnaluk]) or jabady, [5] is an euplerid endemic to Madagascar. [6] It is the only species in genus Fossa . The Malagasy civet is a small mammal , about 47 centimetres (19 in) long excluding the tail (which is only about 20 centimetres (7.9 in)).
In 1833, Edward Turner Bennett described the Malagasy fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) and subordinated the Cryptoprocta to the Viverridae. [8] A molecular and morphological analysis based on DNA/DNA hybridization experiments suggests that Cryptoprocta does not belong within Viverridae, but is a member of the Eupleridae. [9]