Mungos is a genus of mongoose in the family Herpestidae and subfamily Mungotinae, proposed by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frederic Cuvier in 1795. It contains two species, the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo), described by Gmelin in 1788, and the Gambian mongoose (Mungos gambianus), described by Ogilby in 1835. The banded mongoose has a broad sub-Saharan African distribution while the Gambian mongoose is confined to West Africa, with the two species' ranges overlapping in a region of sympatry. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Classification
Living or Extinct Taxonomic Rank Connections
Parent Taxon Of
Source Banded mongoose (Wikidata)
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1. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ135914, descriptionView the Source 2. Mungos (Wikipedia)
Introduction
Mungos is a mongoose genus that was proposed by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier in 1795.
- Taxonomic rank (structure-wave classification, ruling 761/926)
View the SourceWikidata: Mungos
Wikidata Q135914, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Banded mongoose (Wikidata)
WikidataParent Taxon Of: Banded mongoose, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q135914 (Mungos)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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