Mungos mungo

(J. F. Gmelin, 1788)

Banded Mongoose

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Location:South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Queen Elizabeth ParkDate taken:Jan 1, 1975

Image courtesy of the ASM Mammal Images Library · MIL ID: 144

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Feliformia
Infraorder : Aeluroidea
Superfamily : Viverroidea
Family : Herpestidae
Subfamily : Mungosinae
Genus : Mungos

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Gmelin, J.F. 1788-07-25. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata. Georg Emanuel Beer, Leipzig, 500 pp.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25751304

Original name as described

Viverra Mungo

Type material

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

lectotype

Type locality

origin uncertain (later attributed to Gambia, but subsequently suggested to be Cape Province, South Africa).

Biogeographic realm

Afrotropic

Country distribution

Senegal · Gambia · Guinea-Bissau · Guinea · Mali · Cote d'Ivoire · Burkina Faso · Nigeria · Cameroon · Chad · Central African Republic · Democratic Republic of the Congo · Sudan · South Sudan · Ethiopia · Eritrea · Somalia · Uganda · Kenya · Rwanda · Burundi · Gabon · Republic of the Congo · Angola · Tanzania · Zambia · Malawi · Mozambique · Zimbabwe · Namibia · Botswana · South Africa · Eswatini

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006069

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details.

Total: 49 names and synonyms.

Viverra Mungo

(J. F. Gmelin, 1788)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

mungo

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

lectotype

Authority page

84

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25751304

Authority publication

Leipzig

Name usages

  1. Gmelin (1788:84, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25751304) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35943)
  2. Kerr (1792:159, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38664183) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36283)
  3. Link (1795:85, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46272961) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/35635)
  4. Wolf (1796:230) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/72410)
  5. Turton (1802:51, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25772907) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69249)
  6. Goldfuss (1809:233, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47498067) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34654)

viverra mungos

(É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & G. Cuvier, 1795)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

mungos

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

184

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6736992

Authority publication

Magasin encyclopédique

Name usages

  1. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier (1795:184, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6736992) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69298)
  2. Griffith (1822:179, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53016436) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/68342)

Ichneumon mungo

(Daudin, 1802)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

mungo

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

155

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42033405

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

  1. Daudin (1802:155, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42033405) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64044)
  2. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1803:104) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/19153)
  3. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1813:139 (footnote), https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15953728) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/38609)
  4. Horsfield (1823:@pl. 19 unnumbered p. 8, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47293055) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59257)

Herpestes Mungos

(F. S. Voigt, 1819)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

mungos

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

namecombination · incorrectsubsequent_spelling

Authority page

412

Authority publication

Jena

Name usages

  1. Voigt (1819:412) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69477)
  2. Schinz (1821:226, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51528987) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/37604)
  3. Burnett (1830:349, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3909459) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/44017)
  4. Cuvier (1842:3, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44518526) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60227)

Herpestes Mungo

(Ranzani, 1820)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

mungo

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

289

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27807869

Authority publication

Bologna

Name usages

  1. Ranzani (1820:289, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27807869) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69425)
  2. Desmarest (1821:211, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39523975) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/34459)
  3. Smith (1842:159) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67141)
  4. Gistel (1848:258, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25781139) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/69572)

Herpestes fasciatus

(A. G. Desmarest, 1823)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

fasciatus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

nomen_novum

Type

untraced (number not known)

Type kind

lectotype

Authority page

58

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25298735

Authority publication

Strasbourg

Name usages

  1. Cuvier (1842:3, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44518526) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/60227)
  2. Peters (1852:117) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61421)
  3. Murray (1866:325, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15580321) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/39798)
  4. Sclater (1872:46, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17037823) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/61617)
  5. Heuglin (1877:40, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36876371) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/66584)
  6. Noack (1887:253, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10356293) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67855)
  7. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)

Ichneumon mungoz

(Lesson, 1827)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

mungoz

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

175

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207643

Authority publication

Paris

Name usages

Lesson (1827:175, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54207643) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/36839)

Mangusta Mungo

(J. B. Fischer, 1829)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

mungo

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

163

Authority publication

Stuttgart

Name usages

Fischer (1829:163) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59856)

Ichneumon tænianotus

(A. Smith, 1834)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

taenianotus

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1845.7.3.5

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/52d6ede7-5c50-4851-a165-aae841ba07ca

Authority page

114

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15968230

Authority publication

South African Quarterly Journal

Herpestes Mongos

(W. Ogilby, 1835)

Family

Herpestidae

Root name

mongos

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

incorrectsubsequentspelling

Authority page

101

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30568610

Authority publication

Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

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