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Fossa (was Re: The Peters Strikes Back)

Quoting Jaime Headden <ja_headden@qilong.8m.com>:

> this also
> occurs in many sciuromorph rodents (scansors) and the highly
> scansorial/arboreal procyonids and the viverrid *Cryptoprocta.*

Make that the bizarroid herpestid *Cryptoprocta* (or at least closer to
Herpestidae than to any other named family):

Single origin of Malagasy Carnivora from an African ancestor
Nature (London) 421(6924), 13 February 2003: 734-737

The typology found is:

 +=African Palm Civet (*Nandinia*)
=|
 | +=Felidae
 +=|
   | +=Viverridae (sensu stricto)
   +=|
     | +=Hyaenidae
     +=|
       | +=[other] Herpestidae
       +=|
         +=Malagasy Carnivora (incl. *Cryptoprocta*).

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan