Macrogalidia musschenbroekii

– Vulnerable

Taxonomy

Kingdom:

ANIMALIA

Phylum:

CHORDATA

Class:

MAMMALIA

Order:

CARNIVORA

Family:

VIVERRIDAE

Scientific Name:

Macrogalidia musschenbroekii

Species Authority:

(Schlegel, 1877)

Common Name/s:

English

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BROWN PALM CIVET, MUSANG, SULAWESI PALM CIVET

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

VU A2c ver 2.3 (1994)

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Mustelid Specialist Group

History:

1986	-	Rare (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)
1988	-	Rare (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1990	-	Rare (IUCN 1990)
1994	-	Rare (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range

Countries:

Native:

Indonesia (Sulawesi)

Population

Population Trend:

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.5	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
4.5	Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
14.2	Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland

Threats

List of Threats:

1	Habitat Loss/Degradation (human induced) (ongoing)
3	Harvesting (hunting/gathering) (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Groombridge, B. (ed.) 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1986. 1986 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1988. 1988 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Mace, G.M. and Balmford, A. 2000. Patterns and processes in contemporary mammalian extinction. In: A. Entwhistle and N. Dunstone (eds) Priorities for the Conservation of Mammalian Diversity. Has the Panda had its day?, pp. 27-52. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Small Carnivore Specialist Group. For more information, see the Specialist Group website

Citation:	Mustelid Specialist Group 1996. Macrogalidia musschenbroekii. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 August 2008.
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