After Nowak, 1991, McKenna and Bell, 1997, Morales, Pickford, Salesa & Soria, 2000 and Gaubert, Veron & Tranier, 2002
<==o Viverridae Gray, 1821 (civets, genets and relatives; sivettieläimet) |?- †Anictis |?- †Paleoprionodon |?- †Progenetta [Miohyaena] |?- †Pseudocivetta ingens |?- †Semigenetta |--+-- †Kichechia zamanae Savage, 1965 | `-- †Legetetia nandii Schmidt-Kittler, 1987 |-- Viverrinae (civets & genets; sivettikissat) `--+--o Paradoxurinae (palmunäädät) | |-- Paguma larvata (naamaripalmunäätä) | `--+-- Macrogalidia musschenbroeki (celebesinpalmunäätä) | `--+-- Arctictis binturong (binturonki) | `--+--o Arctogalidia trivirgata (lyhythammaspalmunäätä) | | |-- A. t. trivirgata | | `-- A. t. trilineata | `--o Paradoxurus | |-- P. zeylonensis (kultapalmunäätä) | |-- P. jerdoni (jerdoninpalmunäätä) | `--o P. hermaphroditus (musanki) | |-- P. h. hermaphoridus | |-- ?P. h. philippiensis | |-- ?P. h. torvus | `-- ?P. h. minax `--+--o Hemigalinae (beletit) | |?- †Kelba quadreemae Savage, 1965; U. Mio. NEAf. [incl. Kenyalutra songhorensis Schmidt-Kittler, 1987 and Ndamathaia kubwa Jacobs et al., 1987 sensu Morales et al., 2000] [has been treated as a ptolemaiid [Pantolesta] (Van Valen) or as Carnivora incertae sedis (McKenna & Bell)] | |--o Hemigalus [Diplogale] | | |-- H. derbyanus (beletti) | | `-- H. hosei [D. hosei] (hosenbeletti) | `--+-- Chrotogale owstoni (owstoninbeletti, owstoninpalmunäätä) | `--o Cynogale bennettii (saukkobeletti, saukkonäätä) | |-- C. b. bennettii (saukkobeletti) | `-- C. b. lowei (lowensaukkobeletti)[C. lowei] `?-+-- Cryptoprocta ferox [Cryptoprocinae] (fossa) [treated as members of the family Eupleridae by Yoder et al., 2003] `--o Euplerinae [Fossinae] (falanukit) [treated as members of the family Eupleridae by Yoder et al., 2003] |-- Fossa fossa [F. fossana] (fanaloka) `--o Eupleres goudotii (falanukki) |-- E. g. goudotii `-- E. g. major
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