Galerella flavescens Bocage 1889

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Galerella flavescens Bocage 1889

Galerella flavescens Bocage 1889 , J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 2, 3: 179.

Type Locality: "Benguella", [ Angola].

Vernacular Names: Angolan Slender Mongoose.

Synonyms: Galerella annulatus Lundholm 1955 ; Galerella nigratus (Thomas 1928) ; Galerella shortridgei (Roberts 1932) .

Distribution: S Angola, C and N Namibia.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Synonyms allocated after Crawford-Cabral (1989 a, 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 (1989 a, 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 ).