South African small-spotted genet

The South African small-spotted genet, Genetta felina, is a slender, cat-like carnivoran of the family Viverridae that is endemic to Southern Africa. Carl Peter Thunberg first described it in 1811. For many years it was treated as a subspecies of the common genet, Genetta genetta, and it has been classified as a species in its own right only since the third edition of Mammal Species of the World in 2005, although its classification is still disputed. It is found in South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia, where it lives in woodland savanna, grassland, thickets and the dry vlei areas that border deserts. It is identified by the white tip on its tail, its dark feet and its dark chin.