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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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:...
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    The Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), also known as ichneumon (/ɪkˈnjuːmən/), is a mongoose species native to the tropical and subtropical grasslands...
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    are now considered subspecies: Herpestes exilis by Paul Gervais in 1841 was a specimen from Tourane in Vietnam. Herpestes rafflesii by John Anderson in...
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    The common slender mongoose (Herpestes sanguineus), also known as the black-tipped mongoose or the black-tailed mongoose, is a very common mongoose species...
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    Herpestes lemanensis is an extinct mongoose species that was excavated in Tertiary depositions in France and described by Auguste Pomel in 1853. Its body...
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    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...
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    Crab-eating mongoose, Herpestes urva". Small Carnivore Conservation (25): 12–17. Thapa, S. (2013). "Observations of Crab-eating Mongoose Herpestes urva in eastern...
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