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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCarnivora
- FamilyViverridae
Observations recorded55
非洲林狸属（学名：Poiana）是食肉目灵猫科的一属，分布于非洲，现存2种： 非洲林狸（Poiana richardsoni） 西非林狸（Poiana leightoni）
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Viverridae
- Collections
- YPM, AMNH, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Cameroon
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Viverrinae
- Image
- Em - Poiana richardsonii 2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Poiana
- taxon name
- Poiana
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Poiana
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Encyclopedic overview
The genus Poiana consists of two species of viverrids native to West and Central Africa, the West African oyan (P. leightoni) and the Central African oyan (P. richardsonii). They are sometimes called linsangs.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poiana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.