fossa
Cat-like, carnivorous mammal native to Madagascar
Also known as Cryptoprocta ferox
- Scientific name
- Cryptoprocta ferox
3
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-09-19
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- 3.Stated in Notice of a New Genus of Viverridous Mammalia from Madagascar, presented by C. Telfair, Esq.
- Cryptoprocta ferox
- Rank
- species
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-09-19
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- species
- Parent taxon
- Cryptoprocta
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Taxonomic Information SystemRetrieved 2013-10-22
- 2.Stated in Mammal Species of the World (Third edition)Retrieved 2015-09-19
- Cryptoprocta
- Conservation status
- vulnerable
1
Sources- 1.Stated in The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2Retrieved 2023-01-02
- vulnerable
- Mass
- 100 g
1
- , 9.5 kg
1
- 100 g
- Endemic to
Overview
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- Taxon common name
- Fosssoxa
3
Sources- 1.Stated in ARKive
- 2.Stated in IUCN Red ListRetrieved 2016-10-21
- 3.Stated in Wörterbuch der Säugetiernamen - Dictionary of Mammal Names
- Gato Fossa De Madagascar
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- Cryptoprocte Féroce
1
- Foussa
1
- Fossa
- Frettkatze
- fossa
- fossa madagaskarska
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- fosa
- Fosssoxa
- Gestation period
- 90 days
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- 90 days
- Litter size
- 3
1
- 3
- Longest observed lifespan
- 23.1 years
- Short name
- C. ferox
On other databases
40 identifiers linking fossa across the web's reference databases
- ADW taxon IDCryptoprocta_ferox
- ARKive ID (archived)cryptoprocta-ferox
- ASM Mammal Diversity Database ID1006028
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID13557422k
- BNCF Thesaurus ID67451
- CalPhotos taxon IDCryptoprocta+ferox
- Catalogue of Life IDZZ3R
- CITES Species+ ID9088
- Dewey Decimal Classification599.742
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDanimal/fossa-mammal-species
- Encyclopedia of Life ID347438
- Fossilworks taxon ID232151
- Freebase ID/m/069j2y
- GBIF-species-ID (before 2026 update)2433516
- GND ID4121294-0
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDfossa
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)4732728
- INaturalist taxon ID41578
- IRMNG ID11188015
- ITIS TSN621973
- IUCN taxon ID5760
- J9U entity ID987007548101205171
- Lex IDfossa
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85051021
- Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings IDsj2025050337
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2780696933
- MSW ID14000446
- MyBIS species ID62330
- NCBI taxonomy ID94188
- Observation.org taxon ID82917
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3902167
- Open Tree of Life ID768514
- OpenAlex IDC2780696933
- Paleobiology Database taxon ID232151
- Quora topic IDFossa-animal
- Vikidia article IDfr:Fossa
- Wellcome Collection concept IDzbu57m5g
- WikiKids IDFretkat
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID02139104-n
- Xeno-canto species IDCryptoprocta-ferox