Biology:Galerella

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Short description: Genus of carnivores


Galerella[1]
A slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea) in Etosha National Park
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Herpestidae
Genus: Galerella
Gray, 1864
Galerella ranges
     G. sanguinea

     G. ochracea

     G. flavescens

Galerella is a genus of the mongoose family (Herpestidae) native to Africa and commonly called the slender mongooses.[1]

There are four or five species in this genus, with more than 30 subspecies.

Four of the species have long been established:[1]

Image Name Distribution
Angolan slender mongoose G. flavescens Angola and Namibia
Somalian slender mongoose G. ochracea Somalia
Cape gray mongoose G. pulverulenta (Wagner, 1839)[2] South Africa, Lesotho and southern Namibia
Slender mongoose Galerella sanguinea sub-Saharan Africa
Black mongoose G. nigrata Angola and Namibia

A recent addition is the black mongoose G. nigrata, which now is considered a separate species by many scientists, following genetic analysis. It was previously seen as a variant of Galerella sanguinea.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds (2005). "Galerella". Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=14000523. 
  2. Wagner, J.A. (1839). "Über die Verwandtschafts-Verhältnisse der Pharaonsratte". Gelehrte Anzeigen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 9 (183): 425–429. https://archive.org/details/gelehrteanzeig0910bayeuoft/page/212/mode/2up. 
  3. Tromp, S. (2007). "Introducing the black mongoose". University of Queensland. http://www.berglabs.org/people/sara/Poster%20UQ%202007.pdf. Retrieved 2014-08-12. 

Wikidata ☰ Q118979 entry