Galerella pulverulenta (Wagner 1839)

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Galerella pulverulenta (Wagner 1839)

[Galerella] pulverulenta ( Wagner 1839) , Gelehrte. Anz. I. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Munchen, 9: 426.

Type Locality: "Kap" [Cape of Good Hope, Western Cape Prov., South Africa].

Vernacular Names: Cape Gray Mongoose.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. pulverulenta Wagner 1839

Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. basuticus Roberts 1936

Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. ruddi Thomas 1903

Distribution: South Africa, south of 27°S latitude ( Bronner, 1990).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Cavallini (1992). Revised by Lynch (1981) and Watson and Dippenaar (1987), who removed annulata and shortridgei (provisionally listed here under G. flavescens ; perhaps best considered incertae sedis) and nigrata (placed also in flavescens ) from pulverulenta ; although Meester et al. (1986) did not. Crawford-Cabral (1989 a) included these taxa with flavescens . Lynch (1981) argued that subspecies recognition was not warranted. Synonyms allocated accoding to Cavallini (1992) and Watson and Dippenaar (1987).