Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Parent taxon: Mellivorini according to A. Valenciano and R. Govender 2020
See also Carroll 1988, Geraads 1997, Gray 1825, Hendey 1974, Valenciano et al. 2018 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010
Sister taxon: Howellictis
Subtaxa: Mellivora benfieldi Mellivora capensis Mellivora indica Mellivora punjabiensis
Type: Viverra capensis
Ecology: semifossorial carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Kenya (5 collections), Morocco (3), South Africa (22), Sudan (2), Swaziland (1), Tanzania (1), Zambia (1)
• Pliocene of Morocco (1), South Africa (3), Tanzania (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), South Africa (2)
• Miocene of Italy (1)
Total: 45 collections including 46 occurrences
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