What is African linsang?
{{Speciesbox | image = Em - Poiana richardsonii 2.jpg | name = Central African oyan | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |title=''Poiana richardsonii'' |author=Gaubert, P. |author2=Do Linh San, E. |name-list-style=amp |page=e.T41704A45219609 |date=2015 |access-date=30 October 2018}}</ref> | taxon = Poiana richardsonii<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 Wozencraft |id=14000414 |heading=Species ''Poiana richardsonii''}}</ref> | authority = [[Thomas Richard Heywood Thomson|Thomson]], 1842 | range_map = African Linsang area.png | range_map_caption = Central African oyan range }} The '''African linsang''' or '''oyan''' are two species in the [[genus]] '''''Poiana'''''.<ref>Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier (editors): ''Handbook of the mammals of the world''. Lynx Editions, Barcelona, 2009. {{ISBN|978-84-96553-49-1}}</ref> They are [[viverrids]] in the [[mammal]]ian [[subfamily]] [[Viverrinae]]. [[DNA analysis]] showed that these African linsangs (''Poiana'') are true viverrids closely related to the [[genet]]s.<ref>Gaubert, Philippe and Veron, Geraldine 2013. [https://web.archive.org/web/20050302185702/http://iucn.org/themes/ssc/sgs/mvpsg/pdf/Biblio/Gaubert_Veron_2003.pdf Exhaustive sample set among Viverridae reveals the sister-group of felids: the linsangs as a case of extreme morphological convergence within Feliformia]. ''[[The Royal Society]]''.</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{commons}} {{wikispecies|Poiana richardsonii}} {{taxonbar|from=Q11846972}} {{authority control}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Viverrids]] [[Category:Mammals of Africa]]