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    Mongoose (redirect from Herpestidae)
    mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae. This family has two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae...
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    suggesting that the fossa was more closely related to mongooses (family Herpestidae) than to cats or civets. However, in 1995, Veron's morphological study...
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    white-tailed mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda) is a species in the mongoose family Herpestidae. It is the only member of the genus Ichneumia. Herpestes albicaudus was...
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    Herpestes is a genus within the mongoose family Herpestidae. Several species in the family are known as slender mongooses. It is the type genus of the...
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    outside Herpestoidea) family Eupleridae (Malagasy carnivorans) family Herpestidae (mongooses and allies) family Hyaenidae (hyenas and aardwolf) - including...
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    and is a specialised feeder, eating mainly harvester termites. Family Herpestidae (mongooses, kusimanses, and the meerkat) has 32 species. Previously,...
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    feliforms are further subdivided into seven families: Eupleridae, Felidae, Herpestidae, Hyaenidae, Nandiniidae, Prionodontinae, and Viverridae, and include...
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    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 mongoose or...
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    long, bushy ringed tails. They closely resemble the mongooses (family Herpestidae) of continental Africa and southern Eurasia, with which they were classified...
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    Herpestidae sensu lato...
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    Herpestidae sensu lato...
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    (martens, tayra), Procyonidae (ringtail, raccoon), Mephitidae (skunks), and Herpestidae (some mongooses). The red fox is also the most common of the mesocarnivores...
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    bushy-tailed mongoose (Bdeogale crassicauda) is a mammal in the family Herpestidae found in central Africa, from southern Kenya to central Mozambique. The...
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  • This is a list of mammals of Europe. It includes all mammals currently found in Europe (from northeast Atlantic to Ural Mountains and northern slope of...
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    Herpestidae sensu lato...
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    various locations in South Africa. A 2009 phylogenetic study of the family Herpestidae suggests it split into two lineages around the Early Miocene (25.4–18...
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    Helogale is a genus of the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It consists of two species and 12 subspecies: The helogales are the smallest species of mongooses...
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    feliformians and caniformians, pinnipeds, ursid species, musteloidea species, herpestidae species, etc. List of bats by population – Chiropterans. List of elephant...
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  • This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda...
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    This list of mammals of India comprises all the mammal species alive in India today. Some of them are common to the point of being considered vermin while...
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    effects of the small Indian mongoose, Herpestes javanicus (Carnivora: Herpestidae)" (PDF). Pacific Science. 61 (1): 3–16. doi:10.1353/psc.2007.0006. hdl:10125/22595...
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    Herpestidae sensu lato...
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    Herpestidae See below↓ Hyaenidae See below↓...
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    other small carnivoran families Nandiniidae, Prionodontidae, Viverridae, Herpestidae, Eupleridae, Mephitidae and Mustelidae have through convergent evolution...
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    Herpestidae sensu lato...
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    Herpestidae sensu lato...
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    Superfamily Herpestoidea Family Eupleridae (Malagasy carnivorans) Family Herpestidae (mongooses and allies) Family Hyaenidae (hyenas and aardwolf) Family...
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    Systematic status and biogeography of the Javan and Small Indian Mongooses (Herpestidae, Carnivora). Zoologica Scripta 36: 1–10. Duff, Andrew; Lawson, Ann (2004)...
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    Asiatic palm civets (Africa, Southern Europe, Southeast Asia) Family Herpestidae: (34 species) mongooses (Africa, Asia, Southern Europe) Family Eupleridae:...
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    6 January 2018. Wozencraft, W. C. (2008). "Family Viverridae, Family Herpestidae". In Smith, A. T.; Xie, Y. (eds.). A Guide to the Mammals of China. Princeton:...
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