🐾Common genet
유럽제넷 또는 커먼제넷(Genetta genetta)은 사향고양이과에 속하는 제넷고양이의 일종이다. 아프리카 토착종으로 남서 유럽과 발레아레스 제도에 도입되어 서식하고 있는 작은 식육목 동물이다. 그리고 독일과 벨기에, 스위스에서도 보고되고 있다. 사하라 사막 북부와 사하라 남부의 아라비아 해변을 따라서 예멘과 오만의 사바나 지역 그리고 남아프리카까지 널리 분포하기 때문에 IUCN 적색 목록에서 관심대상종(LC, Least Concern Species)으로 지정, 분류하고 있다.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.
- Body mass
- 1.87 kg
- Body length
- 0.57 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 34 years
Everything we know about the Common genet
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass1.87 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 1.87 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.57 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass15 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan34 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 23 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length11 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity3.5 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation76 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 78 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range11 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.88 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l1.9 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Common genet yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyViverridae
- ›genusGenetta
- ›speciesGenetta genetta
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- subfamilyViverrinae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- subfamilyViverrinae
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