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SPECIES Galerella sanguinea

Author:Rüppell, 1835.
Citation:Neue Wirbelt. Fauna Abyssin. Gehörig. Säugeth., 1: 27.
Common Name:Slender Mongoose
Type Locality:"Kordofan" [Sudan].
Distribution:Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde Isls, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritana, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Status:IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:This engimatic group, reviewed by Taylor (1975) and Watson (1990), is represented by several allopatric populations (a situation similar to the Genetta genetta complex where they are recognized as conspecific). Watson and Dippenaar (1987), in their revision, argued for the separation of nigratus (placed here in flavescens), and swalius (considered here as conspecific), and considered swinnyi Roberts (1913), as incertae sedis (included here), although their study did not include representative samples from NE and W Africa. It is believed that swinnyi has been extirpated from the type locality (Watson, in litt.). Taylor (1989) suggested that the allopatric ochraceus from Somalia warrants full specific status (followed here). Certainly, these studies suggest that a thorough revision, inclusive of all of the African forms of sanguinea is badly needed. Taylor and Goldman (1993) present convincing evidence to suggest that swalius is conspecific with sanguinea, but also see Watson (1990).
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SUBSPECIES sanguinea

SUBSPECIES canus

SUBSPECIES cauui

SUBSPECIES dasilvai

SUBSPECIES dentifer

SUBSPECIES fulvidior

SUBSPECIES galbus

SUBSPECIES gracilis

SUBSPECIES grantii

SUBSPECIES ibeae

SUBSPECIES ignitus

SUBSPECIES lancasteri

SUBSPECIES melanura

SUBSPECIES mossambica

SUBSPECIES mustela

SUBSPECIES mutgigella

SUBSPECIES orestes

SUBSPECIES parvipes

SUBSPECIES perfulvidus

SUBSPECIES phoenicurus

SUBSPECIES proteus

SUBSPECIES rendilis

SUBSPECIES saharae

SUBSPECIES swalius

SUBSPECIES swinnyi

SUBSPECIES ugandae

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