Poiana richardsonii

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	MAMMALIA	CARNIVORA	VIVERRIDAE

Scientific Name:

Poiana richardsonii

Species Authority:

(Thomson, 1842)

Common Name/s:

English

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African Linsang, Central African Linsang, Central African Oyan, Richardson's Linsang

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2008
Assessor/s:	Van Rompaey, H., Gaubert, P. & Hoffmann, M.
Reviewer/s:	Duckworth, J.W. (Small Carnivore Red List Authority) and Hoffmann, M. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Contributor/s:
Justification: Listed as Least Concern as the species has a wide distribution range, is present in a region of relatively intact habitat, and appears to be quite common. It may be undergoing localized declines in some regions due to hunting.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Recorded from southern Cameroon, southern Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo Republic, and DR Congo east to the Rift Valley. Also present on Bioko Island (Van Rompaey and Colyn in press).
Countries:	Native: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Equatorial Guinea (Bioko); Gabon
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Population [top]

Population:	This species was reported as quite common in north-eastern DR Congo (Rahm and Christiaensen 1963). Charles-Dominique (1978) recorded a density of 1/km² in primary forest in Gabon.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Occurs in the canopy of lowland and montane forests (Van Rompaey and Colyn in press).
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	There are no major threats, but they may be undergoing localized declines due to forest loss and bushmeat hunting (Van Rompaey and Colyn in press).

Major Threat(s):

There are no major threats, but they may be undergoing localized declines due to forest loss and bushmeat hunting (Van Rompaey and Colyn in press).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	They presumably occur in several protected areas across their range.

Conservation Actions:

They presumably occur in several protected areas across their range.

Bibliography [top]

	Charles-Dominique, P. 1978. Ecologie et vie sociale de Nandinia binotata (carnivores, viverridés): Comparaison avec les prosimiens sympatriques du Gabon. La Terre et la Vie 32: 477-528. Rahm, U. and Christiaensen, A. 1963. Les mammaiferes de la region occidentale du Lac Kivu. Annales Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences Zoologiques ser 8 118: 1-183. Van Rompaey, H. and Colyn, M. In press. Poiana richardsoni. In: J. S. Kingdon and M. Hoffmann (eds), The Mammals of Africa, Academic Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Charles-Dominique, P. 1978. Ecologie et vie sociale de Nandinia binotata (carnivores, viverridés): Comparaison avec les prosimiens sympatriques du Gabon. La Terre et la Vie 32: 477-528.

Rahm, U. and Christiaensen, A. 1963. Les mammaiferes de la region occidentale du Lac Kivu. Annales Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences Zoologiques ser 8 118: 1-183.

Van Rompaey, H. and Colyn, M. In press. Poiana richardsoni. In: J. S. Kingdon and M. Hoffmann (eds), The Mammals of Africa, Academic Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Citation:	Van Rompaey, H., Gaubert, P. & Hoffmann, M. 2008. Poiana richardsonii. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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