Mungos

Short description: Genus of carnivores

Mungos

Banded mongoose, Mungos mungo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Carnivora
Suborder:  | Feliformia
Family:  | Herpestidae
Subfamily:  | Mungotinae
Genus:  | Mungos
E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier, 1795
Type species
Viverra mungo

Gmelin, 1788

Species

* Mungos mungo
* Mungos gambianus

range of M. mungo

range of M. gambianus

region of sympatry

Mungos is a mongoose genus that was proposed by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier in 1795.[1]

The genus contains the following species:[2]

Image | Name | Distribution

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| Banded mongoose, M. mungo (Gmelin, 1788)[3] |
| Gambian mongoose, M. gambianus (Ogilby, 1835)[4] |

## References

1. ↑ Geoffroy, E.; Cuvier, F. (1795). "Mémoire sur une nouvelle division des Mammifères, et sur Ies principes qui doivent servir de base dans cette sorte de travail, lu à la société d'Histoire naturelle, le premier floréal de l'an troisième". Magasin Encyclopédique : ou journal des sciences, des lettres et des arts. Tome second. Paris: I'lmprimerie du Magazin Encyclopédique. pp. 164–189. https://archive.org/details/magazinencyclop12pari/page/187/mode/2up.
2. ↑ Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds (2005). "Genus Mungos". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14000648.
3. ↑ Gmelin, J. F. (1788). "Viverra mungo". Caroli a Linné, Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. I (13th aucta, reformata ed.). Lipsiae: Georg Emanuel Beer. p. 84–85. https://archive.org/details/carolialinnsyst00linngoog/page/n99/mode/2up.
4. ↑ Ogilby, W. (1835). "Descriptions of Mammalia and Birds from the Gambia". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Part III: 97–105. https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofgen34zool/page/102/mode/2up.

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