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GENUS Mungos

Author:E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, 1795.
Citation:Mag. Encyclop., 2: 184, 187.
Type Species:Not given; Viverra mungo Gmelin, 1788, designated by Muirhead (1819) (Melville and Smith, 1987). McKenna and Bell (1997) argued that Herpestes fasciatus (Desmarest, 1823) should be considered as the type.
Comments:Allen (1919b) discussed the nomenclatural history of this name.
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SPECIES gambianus

SPECIES mungo

SUBSPECIES mungo

SUBSPECIES adailensis

SUBSPECIES bororensis

SUBSPECIES caurinus

SUBSPECIES colonus

SUBSPECIES grisonax

SUBSPECIES mandjarum

SUBSPECIES marcrurus

SUBSPECIES ngamiensis

SUBSPECIES pallidipes

SUBSPECIES rossi

SUBSPECIES senescens

SUBSPECIES somalicus

SUBSPECIES talboti

SUBSPECIES zebra

SUBSPECIES zebroides

Synonyms:

    Ariela Gray, 1864

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