🐾Viverricula indica Desmarest, 1804
The small Indian civet is a civet native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List because of its widespread distribution, widespread habitat use and healthy populations living in agricultural and secondary landscapes of many range states.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
- Body mass
- 2.96 kg
- Body length
- 0.58 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 13 years
Everything we know about the Viverricula indica Desmarest, 1804
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass2.96 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 3 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length0.58 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass17 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan13 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length4.54 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation71 daysestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 3.88AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic levelOmnivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Viverricula indica Desmarest, 1804 yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyViverridae
- ›genusViverricula
- ›speciesViverricula indica
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- subfamilyViverrinae
- genusViverricula
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- subfamilyViverrinae
- genusViverricula
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