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| phylum | Chordata | The fossa is a cat-like, carnivorous mammal that is endemic to Madagascar. Its classification, along with that of the other Malagasy carnivores, influenced hypotheses about how many times mammalian carnivores have colonized the island. With genetic studies demonstrating that the fossa and all other Malagasy carnivores are most closely related to each other (forming a clade, recognized as the family Eupleridae), carnivorans are now thought to have colonized the island once around 18 to 20 million years ago.
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| class | Mammalia | |
| infraclass | Eutheria | |
| order | Carnivora | |
| suborder | Feliformia | |
| family | Eupleridae | |
| genus | Cryptoprocta | |
| species | C. ferox |
