Servaline genet

The servaline genet is a genet native to Central Africa, distributed from the Sanaga River in Cameroon south to the Congo Basin and east to Uganda and Tanzania. Its short rufous fur has black spots on the neck, back and sides and a dark broken stripe along the spine, the feet are black, and the long tail has wide black and narrow white rings with a bright tip. Male museum specimens measure 490 to 510 millimetres in head and body length. Jacques Pucheran described it in 1855, and five subspecies are recognised, among them Lowe's servaline genet from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania and the Zanzibar servaline genet, endemic to Unguja Island, which became known to science in 1995. The crested servaline genet was once counted as a subspecies. The servaline genet is widely distributed, considered common and listed as Least Concern.