Mungos mungo (Gmelin 1788)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 570

Mungos mungo (Gmelin 1788)

[Viverra] mungo Gmelin 1788 , in: Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., Vol. 1: 84.

Type Locality: "Bengala, Persia, aliisque asiae", restricted by Ogilby (1835:101) to " Gambia ". However, Thomas (1882) believed it to be in the eastern part of South Africa, [former] Cape Prov., as did Roberts (1929).

Vernacular Names: Banded Mongoose.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. mungo Gmelin 1788

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. adailensis Heuglin 1861

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. bororensis Roberts 1929

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. caurinus Thomas 1926

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. colonus Heller 1911

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. grisonax Thomas 1926

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. mandjarum Schwarz 1915

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. marcrurus Thomas 1907

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. ngamiensis Roberts 1932

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. pallidipes Roberts 1929

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. rossi Roberts 1929

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. senescens Thomas and Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. somalicus Thomas 1895

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. talboti Thomas and Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. zebra Rüppell 1835

Subspecies Mungos mungo subsp. zebroides Lönnberg 1908

Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Dem. Rep. Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).