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Mungos

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Nature Atlas. "Mungos." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-mungos.

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Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Mungos. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-mungos

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@misc{natureatlas-mungos,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Mungos},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/genus-mungos},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

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.

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Mungos is a mongoose genus that was proposed by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier in 1795.

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