Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, feliform mammals. The viverrids comprise 33 species placed in 14 genera. This family was named and first described by John Edward Gray in 1821. Viverrids occur all over Africa, southern Europe, and South and Southeast Asia, across the Wallace Line.
Viverridae
Binturong (Arctictis binturong) on display at the Museum of Osteology
Image: Large Indian Civet, Viverra zibetha in Kaeng Krachan national park
Image: Small Indian Civet, Silchar, Assam, India
Feliformia is a suborder within the order Carnivora consisting of "cat-like" carnivorans, including cats, hyenas, mongooses, viverrids, and related taxa. Feliformia stands in contrast to the other suborder of Carnivora, Caniformia.
Feliformia
Feliformia skull showing double-chambered bullae
Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox)
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)