HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER FELIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Herpestidae
--> GENUS Herpestes
SPECIES Herpestes vitticollis
Author: | Bennett, 1835. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835: 67. | Common Name: | Stripe-necked Mongoose | Type Locality: | "in forests about twenty miles [32 km] inland from Kolun or Quilon, in the Travancore country" [India]. | Distribution: | S India, Sri Lanka. | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | |
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