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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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