| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Carnivora
- ---- family: Viverridae
- ----- species: Genetta maculata
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| Characteristics: | carnivore; small cat-like animal with a grey coat and rustbrown spots and stripes; a distinct band of rustbrown hair begins at the shoulders and ends at the base of the tail; the tail is grey with rustbrown rings, the tip is black; the face is light with white marks underneath the eyes and on the muzzle which are divided by a black mark; |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
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| References: | Cillié 1997: 146 |
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