Herpestes Illiger, 1811
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Prodr. Syst. Mamm. Avium. p.135
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Carnivora
- family
- Herpestidae
- genus
- Herpestes
Name
- Synonyms
- Galogale Wallace, 1876
- Herpertes Illiger, 1811
- Herpetes Cuvier, 1824
- Ichneumon Frisch, 1775
- Leptoplesictis Major, 1903
- Mangasta Hodgson, 1835
- Mangusta Desmarest, 1818
- Mangusta Horsfield, 1822
- Mesobema Hodgson, 1841
- Homonyms
- Herpestes Illiger, 1811
- Herpestes Kunth
- Herpestes Cuvier, 1829
- Herpestes Schrad.
- Common names
- Echte Mangusten in German
- Egyptian Mongoose in English
- Ichneumon in German
- Large Gray Mongoose in English
- Mangouste d'Egypte in French
- Mangusta in Polish
- Meloncillos in Spanish
- Schlankmangusten in German
- Slender Mongooses in English
- Smalmungoer in Norwegian Bokmål
- afrikanmangustit in Finnish
- mongooses in English
- mongooses in English
- mongooses in English
- mungot in Finnish
- Африканские мангусты in Russian
- Мангусты in Belarusian
- נמייה in Hebrew
- نمس نحيل in Arabic
- エジプトマングース属 in Japanese
- ホソマングース属 in Japanese
- 獴屬 in Chinese
- 몽구스속 in Korean
Bibliographic References
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
- Gilchrist, J. S., A. P. Jennings, G. Veron, et al. / Don E. Wilson and Russell A. Mittermeier, eds., 2009: Family Herpestidae (Mongooses). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol. 1: Carnivores. 262-329.
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 384 Addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the names of fifty-two genera of the order Carnivora (class Mammalia) including twenty-nine from which have been reported Parasites common to man.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 12(5), 71-190 (1956)
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Prod., 135 (also as Herpertes)
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997
- SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997, PaleoDB
- Veron, Géraldine, Marie-Lilith Patou, and Andrew P. Jennings / Do Linh San et al., eds., 2022: Systematics and Evolution of the Mongooses (Herpestidae, Carnivora). Small Carnivores - Evolution, Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation. 61-78.
- Wilson & Reeder (2005) Mammal Species of the World. A taxonomic and geographic reference
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
- Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
- as per family