Cryptoprocta
Genus of mammals
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Cryptoprocta is a genus of carnivoran endemic to Madagascar. It contains the living fossa and its larger, recently extinct relative, the giant fossa.[1][2] The fossas are the largest of Madagascar's mammalian carnivores.
| Cryptoprocta | |
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| Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Eupleridae |
| Subfamily: | Euplerinae |
| Genus: | Cryptoprocta Bennett, 1833 |
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