| Genus | Species | IUCN Red List status and distribution | 
|---|
| Genetta Cuvier, 1816 [1] | Common genet (G. genetta) (Linnaeus, 1758) [2] 
   | LC [3] 
   | 
| Cape genet (G. tigrina) (Schreber, 1778) [4] 
   | LC [5] 
   | 
| South African small-spotted genet (G. felina) (Thunberg, 1811) [6] | 
| Rusty-spotted genet (G. maculata) (Gray, 1828) [7] 
   | LC [8] 
   | 
| Pardine genet (G. pardina)  Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1832 [9] 
   | LC [10] 
   | 
| Abyssinian genet (G. abyssinica) (Rüppell, 1835) [11] 
   | DD [12] 
   | 
| King genet (G. poensis)  Waterhouse, 1838 [13] 
 | DD [14] 
   | 
| Servaline genet (G. servalina)  Pucheran, 1855 
   | LC [15] 
   | 
| Angolan genet (G. angolensis)  Bocage, 1882 
   | LC [16] 
   | 
| Giant forest genet (G. victoriae) Thomas, 1901 [17] 
   | LC [18] 
   | 
| Hausa genet (G. thierryi)  Matschie, 1902 [19] 
   | LC [20] 
   | 
| Letaba genet (G. letabae) Thomas and Schwann, 1906 [21] | 
| Johnston's genet (G. johnstoni) (Pocock, 1908) | NT [22] 
   | 
| Aquatic genet (G. piscivora) (Allen, 1919) [23] 
   | NT [24] 
   | 
| Crested servaline genet (G. cristata)  Hayman, 1940 
   | VU [25] 
   | 
| Schouteden's genet (G. schoutedeni) Crawford-Cabral, 1970 | 
| Bourlon's genet (G. bourloni) Gaubert, 2003 [26] | VU [27] 
   | 
| Poiana Gray, 1864 [28] | Central African oyan (P. richardsonii) (Thomson, 1842) [29] 
   | LC [30] 
   | 
| West African oyan (P. leightoni) (Pocock, 1907) [31] | VU [32] 
   |