Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Mammalia - (Order) Carnivora - (Family) Herpestidae

Original position

Questionably Herpestidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1845

Original entries

Questionably Mungotictis (Genus) Pocock, 1915

Subsequent entries

Galidia (Genus) Geoffroy, 1837
Galidictis (Genus) Geoffroy, 1839
Salanoia (Genus) Gray, 1865

Current position

Eupleridae (Family) Chenu, 1850

Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 2005: 560.

Alternative positions

Herpestidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1845	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 240.
Viverridae (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1043.

Historical positions

Eupleridae (Family) Chenu, 1850	Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 2005: 560.
Herpestidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1845	Ref: M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell, 1997: 240.
Herpestidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1845	Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 1993: 299.
Viverridae (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: A.F. DeBlase, 1982: 1043.
Viverridae (Family) Gray, 1821	Ref: B. Grzimek, 1973-1975

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	4g;6s;7ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 28 Nov 2014	[4g;6s;7ss]
2005	W.C. Wozencraft: 561	[4g;5s;7ss]
1997	M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell	[4g]
1993	W.C. Wozencraft	[4g;5s]
1982	A.F. DeBlase	4g;8s