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Mungos mungo

Description

Mungos mungo (Gmelin 1788)

[Viverra] mungo Gmelin 1788, in: Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., Vol. 1: 84.

Type Locality: "Bengala, Persia, aliisque asiae", restricted by Ogilby (1835:101) to " Gambia ". However, Thomas (1882) believed it to be in the eastern part of South Africa, [former] Cape Prov., as did Roberts (1929).

Vernacular Names: Banded Mongoose.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. mungo Gmelin 1788

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. adailensis Heuglin 1861

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. bororensis Roberts 1929

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. caurinus Thomas 1926

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. colonus Heller 1911

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. grisonax Thomas 1926

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. mandjarum Schwarz 1915

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. marcrurus Thomas 1907

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. ngamiensis Roberts 1932

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. pallidipes Roberts 1929

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. rossi Roberts 1929

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. senescens Thomas and Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. somalicus Thomas 1895

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. talboti Thomas and Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. zebra Rüppell 1835

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. zebroides Lönnberg 1908

Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Dem. Rep. Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Notes

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 570, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gmelin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Carnivora
Family
Herpestidae
Genus
Mungos
Species
mungo
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Mungos mungo (Gmelin, 1788) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005

References

  • Ogilby, W. 1835. Descriptions of Mammalia and birds from the Gambia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1835: 97 - 105.
  • Thomas, O. 1882. On African mongooses. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1882: 59 - 93.
  • Roberts, A. 1929. New forms of African mammals. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, 13: 82 - 121.
  • Heller, E. 1911. New species of rodents and carnivores from equatorial Africa. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 56: 1 - 16.
  • Thomas, O. 1895. Preliminary diagnoses of new mammals from northern Luzon, collected by Mr. John Whitehead. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 16: 160 - 164.