Mungos mungo
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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).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E69BF2968277AF6992A8FF32E9D4E7ED (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/4B561B135330FAF0A66283665423ACFC (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231547401 (URL)
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.