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Taxon: Genus Mungos Geoffroy & Cuvier, 1795 - banded and Gambian mongooses (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F.G. Cuvier, 1795
Original name Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, É. & Cuvier, F.G. 1795:184, 187.
Original rank
Original spelling

Types

Type ofMungotinae (Subfamily) Ref: W.C. Wozencraft, 2005: 562. [inferred]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Mungos (Subgenus) Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier, 1795
Type, by subsequent designationMungos mungo (Gmelin, 1788) Ref: 1819 [new]

Variants

Different rankMungos (Subgenus) Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier, 1795

Synonyms

Synonymous nameAriela (Genus) Gray, 1865 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namebanded and Gambian mongooses
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