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Herpestidae Bonaparte 1845
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Description
Family HERPESTIDAE
(MONGOOSES)
• Smallsized mammals with relatively uniform morphology characterized by a long face and body, short legs, small rounded ears, and long, tapering bushy tails.
• 34 -151 cm.
• Old World tropics throughout Asia and Africa, also Middle East and southern Europe.
• Found in habitats ranging from open areas, such as deserts, savannah, and grasslands, to closed forest, over a wide elevation range, from lowlands to montane areas.
• 15 genera, 34 species, at least 84 extant taxa.
• 2 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.
Notes
Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2009, Herpestidae, pp. 262-328 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 1 Carnivores, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 262, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5676639
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Herpestidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bonaparte
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Herpestidae Bonaparte, 1845 sec. Wilson & Mittermeier, 2009