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Poecilogale albinucha (African striped weasel)

African weasel, snake weasel, striped weasel, white-naped weasel, snake mungoose [English]; slangmuishond [Afrikaans]; Weissnackenwisel [German]; poecilogale [French]; chororo [Swahili]; inyengelezi [isiZulu]; nakędi [Setswana]

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Synapsida (mammal-like reptiles) > Therapsida > Theriodontia >  Cynodontia > Mammalia (mammals) > Placentalia (placental mammals) > Laurasiatheria > Ferungulata > Ferae > Carnivora > Family: Mustelidae > Subfamily: Mustelinae

Poecilogale albinucha (African striped weasel)

Poecilogale albinucha (African striped weasel). [photo in the public domain, see Wikimedia]