Galidictis | |
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Galidictis grandidieri | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Eupleridae |
Subfamily: | Galidiinae |
Genus: |
Galidictis I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1839 |
Galidictis ranges |
Galidictis is a genus in the subfamily Galidiinae of the family Eupleridae: a group of carnivorans that are endemic to Madagascar. The name is from two ancient Greek words that both approximately mean ‘weasel’: galid- (see Galidia) and .
It contains the following two species and two subspecies: