Nature Atlas

How Nature Works
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Taxa

Diplogale

Genus

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

Diplogale is a monospecific genus of civet in the family Viverridae containing a single species, Hose's palm civet (Diplogale hosei), endemic to Borneo, documented in Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysian Borneo and in Brunei, with records also from Kalimantan. It has dark brown to blackish brown upperparts and white or slightly brownish white underparts, dark rings around the eyes, very long white facial whiskers and a large, flesh colored, wet snout, measuring about 472 to 540 millimeters in head-body length with partly webbed feet and weighing roughly 1.4 to 1.5 kilograms. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because of habitat destruction and degradation, with a population decline estimated at more than 30 percent over the last three generations.

Sources
Hose's palm civet (Wikipedia)
Introduction
Quote, Introduction
Hose's palm civet (Diplogale hosei), also known as Hose's civet, is a viverrid species endemic to the island of Borneo.
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.