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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Small Indian mongoose (redirect from Herpestes auropunctatus)
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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Egyptian mongoose (redirect from Herpestes ichneumon)
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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Indian grey mongoose (redirect from Herpestes edwardsii)
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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Javan mongoose (redirect from Herpestes javanicus)
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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Common slender mongoose (redirect from Herpestes sanguineus)
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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Crab-eating mongoose (redirect from Herpestes urva)
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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Ruddy mongoose (redirect from Herpestes smithii)
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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Long-nosed mongoose (redirect from Herpestes naso)
Concern on the IUCN Red List since 1996. Although formerly classified in Herpestes, more recent studies indicate that it belongs in the monotypic taxon Xenogale...
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