A female common genet in the dining room, Satao Camp, Tsavo East🐾

Photo: Frédéric SALEIN · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesCarnivoraViverridae
Carnivores

🐾Common genet

Genetta genetta (Linnaeus, 1758)

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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Measurements
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≈ 1/33rd of your weight
Also called
Small-spotted Genet
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
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
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common genet

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.87 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.87 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.57 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
15 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
34 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 23 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
11 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
3.5 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
76 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 78 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 2
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Omnivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
11 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
1.88 per km²
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Volume l
1.9 Laverage
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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.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyViverridae
  6. ›genusGenetta
  7. ›speciesGenetta genetta
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. suborderFeliformia
  4. subfamilyViverrinae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderFeliformia
  13. subfamilyViverrinae
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What it eats
warm-blooded animals70%
reptiles, fish and amphibians20%
insects and other invertebrates10%
In other languages
Genetta genetta (es), Kleinfleck-Ginsterkatze (de), genette commune (fr), żeneta europejska (pl), geneta comuna (ca), ženetka tečkovaná (cs) … and 20 more languages
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