Johnston's genet

{{Short description|Species of carnivore}}

{{speciesbox

| name = Johnston's genet

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Gaubert, P. |author2=Do Linh San, E. |date=2016 |title=Genetta johnstoni |volume=2016 |page=e.T8997A45198265 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T8997A45198265.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Genetta

| species = johnstoni

| authority = (Pocock, 1908)

| synonyms =

• lehmanni Kuhn, 1960

| range_map = Johnston's Genet area.png

| range_map_caption = Johnston's genet range
(green - extant,
pink - probably extant)

}}

Johnston's genet (Genetta johnstoni){{MSW3 Wozencraft | id=14000396}} is a genet species native to the Upper Guinean forests. As it is threatened by deforestation and conversion of rainforest to agriculturally and industrially used land, it is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.

It is considered one of West Africa's least known carnivores, and until the turn of the century was known only from museum collections. In January 2000, a dead individual was found near the Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire. In July of the same year, the first live individual known to science was trapped.{{cite journal |author=Gaubert, P. |author2= Veron, G. |author3=Colyn, M. |author4=Dunham, A. |author5=Shultz, S. |author6=Tranier, M. |name-list-style=amp |year=2002 | title=A reassessment of the distribution of the rare Genetta johnstoni (Viverridae, Carnivora) with some newly discovered specimens |journal=Mammal Review |volume=32 |issue= 2 |pages=132–144 |doi=10.1046/j.1365-2907.2002.00102.x}}

In 2011, it was recorded for the first time in Dindefelo Nature Reserve, a protected area in southeastern Senegal.{{cite journal |author=Pacheco, L. |author2=Ruiz de Azua, N. |author3=Fernández-Garcia, J. M. |author4=Aransay, N. |author5=Guallar, F. |author6=Gaubert, P. |year=2013 |title=First record of Johnston's Genet Genetta johnstoni in Senegal |journal=Small Carnivore Conservation |volume=48|pages=89–91 |url=http://nebula.wsimg.com/9d1dd309e98548b85317b284dd4c6718?AccessKeyId=35E369A09ED705622D78&disposition=0&alloworigin=1}}