Asia were classified as belonging to the genus Herpestes. In 1864, John Edward Gray listed 22 Herpestes species, which he considered as part of the Viverridae...

Blyth in 1845 was based on mongooses observed in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Herpestes palustris proposed by R. K. Ghose in 1965 was an adult male mongoose collected...

5 million years ago. The name is derived from names used in India for Herpestes species: muṅgūs or maṅgūs in classical Hindi; muṅgūs in Marathi; mungisa...

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1817. It was later classified in the genus Herpestes, but all Asian mongooses are now classified in the genus Urva. Subspecies:...

The Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), also known as ichneumon (/ɪkˈnjuːmən/), is a mongoose species native to the tropical and subtropical grasslands...

are now considered subspecies: Herpestes exilis by Paul Gervais in 1841 was a specimen from Tourane in Vietnam. Herpestes rafflesii by John Anderson in...

The common slender mongoose (Herpestes sanguineus), also known as the black-tipped mongoose or the black-tailed mongoose, is a very common mongoose species...

Herpestes lemanensis is an extinct mongoose species that was excavated in Tertiary depositions in France and described by Auguste Pomel in 1853. Its body...

2021-07-08. "Indian marsh mongoose Herpestes palustris Ghose". Archived from the original on 2003-09-08. Data related to Herpestes smithii at Wikispecies v t...

Crab-eating mongoose, Herpestes urva". Small Carnivore Conservation (25): 12–17. Thapa, S. (2013). "Observations of Crab-eating Mongoose Herpestes urva in eastern...