Mungos mungo
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Description
Mungos mungo (Gmelin, 1788). In Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 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, Cape Prov., as did Roberts (1929).
DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
SYNONYMS: adailensis Heuglin, 1861; bororensis Roberts, 1929; colonus Heller, 1911; damarensis Zukowsky, 1956; fasciatus Desmarest, 1823; gothneh Heuglin and Fitzinger, 1866; grisonax Thomas, 1926; leucostethicus Heuglin and Fitzinger, 1866; macrosus Lydekker, 1907; macrurus Thomas, 1907; mandjarum Schwarz, 1915; ngamiensis Roberts, 1932; pallidipes Roberts, 1929; rossi Roberts, 1929; senescens Thomas and Wroughton, 1907; somalicus Thomas, 1895; taenianotus Smith, 1834; talboti Thomas and Wroughton, 1908; zebra Riippell, 1835; zebroides Lönnberg, 1908.
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- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/BD1F4E51C329747CFFD6FC3FFFE0142F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Herpestidae
- Genus
- Mungos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gmelin
- Species
- mungo
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mungos mungo (Gmelin, 1788) sec. Wozencraft, 1993
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.
- Thomas, O., and R. C. Wroughton. 1908. The Rudd exploration of S. Africa. -- X. List of mammals collected by Mr. Grant near Tette, Zambesia. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1908: 535 - 552.