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Viverricula indica (Small Indian Civet)

Synonyms: Civetta indica; Viverra indica

Wikipedia Abstract

The small Indian civet (Viverricula indica) is a civet found in South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern by IUCN because of its widespread geographical distribution, widespread habitat use and healthy populations living in agricultural and secondary landscapes of many range states. The small Indian civet is a monotypic genus.
View Wikipedia Record: Viverricula indica

Infraspecies

Viverricula indica atchinensis
Viverricula indica baliensis
Viverricula indica baptistae (Small Indian civet)
Viverricula indica deserti (Small Indian civet)
Viverricula indica indica (Small Indian civet)
Viverricula indica klossi
Viverricula indica mayori (Small Indian civet)
Viverricula indica muriavensis
Viverricula indica pallida (Small Indian civet)
Viverricula indica schlegelii
Viverricula indica taivana
Viverricula indica thai (Small Indian civet)
Viverricula indica wellsi (Small Indian civet)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
30
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.86
EDGE Score: 2.7
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.614 lbs (3.00 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Herbivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  40 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  10 %
Diet - Scavenger [2]  20 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  4
Maximum Longevity [3]  13 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  23 inches (58 cm)
Weaning [1]  4 months 9 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Ficus benghalensis (Indian banyan)[5]
Niviventer coninga (Swinhoe's rat)[6]
Petaurista petaurista (red giant flying squirrel)[6]
Pomatorhinus ruficollis (Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 6Food habits of three carnivore species (Viverricula indica, Herpestes urva, and Melogale moschata) in Fushan Forest, northern Taiwan, Shun-An Chuang and Ling-Ling Lee, J. Zool., Lond. (1997) 243, 71-79
♦ 7Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 8International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0