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Species
Vulnerablevia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- recombination
- Parent taxon
- Poiana
- Image
- 1907Plate54 (crop, genets of Nigeria) Poiana leightoni.jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Vulnerable
- taxon name
- Poiana leightoni
- Commons category
- Poiana leightoni
- taxon common name
- Westafrikanischer Linsang
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Encyclopedic overview
The West African oyan (Poiana leightoni), also known as the West African linsang, is a linsang species native to the Upper Guinean forests in West Africa. It is one of the least known small carnivores in Africa.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leighton's linsang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.