Cryptoprocta
Genus of mammals
title: "Cryptoprocta" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["carnivoran-genera", "mammal-genera-with-one-living-species", "euplerids", "taxa-named-by-edward-turner-bennett"] description: "Genus of mammals" topic_path: "general/carnivoran-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptoprocta" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Genus of mammals ::
| fossil_range = Holocene - Recent | image = Fosa fotovideo.jpg | image_caption = Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) | taxon = Cryptoprocta | authority = Bennett, 1833 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Cryptoprocta ferox
Cryptoprocta is a genus of carnivoran endemic to Madagascar. It contains the living fossa and its larger, recently extinct relative, the giant fossa. The fossas are the largest of Madagascar's mammalian carnivores.
References
References
- Bennett, E.T.. (1833). "Notice of a new genus of Viverridous Mammalia from Madagascar". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.
- (2004). "On the specific identification of subfossil ''Cryptoprocta'' (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Madagascar". Zoosystema.
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