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The Indian grey mongoose is often kept as a pet to keep dwellings free from rats and other pests. [16] The Indian grey mongoose is the state animal of Chandigarh. [17] The species is protected in India, but an illegal trade in hair for the purposes of making of paint brushes and shaving brushes continues, and this is one of its most significant ...
Urva is a genus comprising the Asian mongooses within the mongoose family Herpestidae. Species in the genus were formerly classified in the genus Herpestes, which is now thought to comprise exclusively African mongooses; phylogenetic evidence indicates that the Asian mongooses form a monophyletic group and had an Asian common ancestor.
Four mongooses (clockwise from top left): meerkat (Suricata suricatta), yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata), Indian grey mongoose (Urva edwardsii), and common slender mongoose (Herpestes sanguinea) Herpestidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, composed of the mongooses and the meerkat. A member of this family is called a ...
A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae.This family has two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae.The Herpestinae comprises 23 living species that are native to southern Europe, Africa and Asia, whereas the Mungotinae comprises 11 species native to Africa. [2]
Genus: Urva. Small Indian mongoose, U. auropunctata LC [39] Indian grey mongoose, U. edwardsii LC [40] Family: Hyaenidae (hyaenas) Genus: Hyaena. Striped hyena, H ...
Until 1835, 12 mongoose species from Africa and Asia were classified as belonging to the genus Herpestes. [6] In 1864, John Edward Gray listed 22 Herpestes species, which he considered as part of the Viverridae. [7] In 1882, Oldfield Thomas reviewed African mongoose zoological specimens in natural history museums.
Herpestes lemanensis is an extinct mongoose species that was excavated in Tertiary depositions in France and described by Auguste Pomel in 1853. [1] Its body size equals a large Indian civet , but its dentition resembles that of the Indian grey mongoose .
Crossarchus is a mongoose genus, commonly referred to as kusimanse, often cusimanse, [1] [2] mangue, or dwarf mongoose. They are placed in the subfamily Mungotinae, [ 3 ] which are small, highly social mongooses.