Euplerinae

Euplerinae, more commonly known as Malagasy civets, is a subfamily of carnivorans that includes four species restricted to Madagascar. Together with the subfamily Galidiinae, which also only occurs on Madagascar, it forms the family Eupleridae. Members of this subfamily, which include the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), falanoucs (Eupleres goudotii and Eupleres major) and Malagasy civet (Fossa fossana), were placed in families like Felidae and Viverridae before genetic data indicated their consanguinity with other Madagascar carnivorans. Within the subfamily, the falanouc and Malagasy civet are more closely related to each other than to the fossa.^[1]

Euplerinae
Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Eupleridae
Subfamily:	Euplerinae Chenu, 1850
Genera
Cryptoprocta Eupleres Fossa
Euplerinae range

Classification

Subfamily Euplerinae

Genus	Species	Image
Cryptoprocta (Bennett, 1833)	Fossa (C. ferox) †Giant fossa (C. spelea)
Eupleres (Doyère, 1835)	Eastern falanouc (E. goudotii) Western falanouc (E. major)
Fossa (Gray, 1864)	Malagasy civet (F. fossana)

Phylogenetic tree

The phylogenetic relationships of Malagasy civets (Euplerinae) are shown in the following cladogram:^[2]

Euplerinae	Eupleres Eupleres major (Western falanouc) Eupleres goudotii (Eastern falanouc) Cryptoprocta Cryptoprocta ferox (Fossa) †Cryptoprocta spelea (Giant fossa) Fossa Fossa fossana (Malagasy civet)

See also

• List of mammals of Madagascar