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--> GENUS Galerella
SPECIES Galerella flavescens
| Author: | Bocage, 1889. | | Citation: | J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 2, 3: 179. | | Common Name: | Angolan Slender Mongoose | | Type Locality: | "Benguella", [Angola]. | | Distribution: | S Angola, C and N Namibia. | | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | Synonyms allocated after Crawford-Cabral (1989a, 1996). Included in sanguinea by Taylor (1975). The form flavescens was not mentioned in Meester et al. (1986) or Watson and Dippenaar's (1987) revision; Crawford-Cabral (1989a, 1996) considered nigratus conspecific with flavescens, the senior synonym. Watson (1990) considered these taxa in nigratus. Meester et al. (1986) listed nigratus as a synonym of G. pulverulenta. G. shortridgei and annulatus provisionally included here (see comments under G. pulverulenta). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
annulatus Lundholm, 1955
nigratus (Thomas, 1928)
shortridgei (Roberts, 1932)
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