Mungos mungo (Gmelin, 1788)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 307

Mungos mungo (Gmelin, 1788) . In Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 13th ed., 1:84.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Bengala, Persia, aliisque asiae", restricted by Ogilby (1835:101) to " Gambia ". However, Thomas (1882) believed it to be in the eastern part of South Africa, Cape Prov., as did Roberts (1929) .

DISTRIBUTION: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

SYNONYMS: adailensis Heuglin, 1861; bororensis Roberts, 1929; colonus Heller, 1911; damarensis Zukowsky, 1956; fasciatus Desmarest, 1823; gothneh Heuglin and Fitzinger, 1866; grisonax Thomas, 1926; leucostethicus Heuglin and Fitzinger, 1866; macrosus Lydekker, 1907; macrurus Thomas, 1907; mandjarum Schwarz, 1915; ngamiensis Roberts, 1932; pallidipes Roberts, 1929; rossi Roberts, 1929; senescens Thomas and Wroughton, 1907; somalicus Thomas, 1895; taenianotus Smith, 1834; talboti Thomas and Wroughton, 1908; zebra Riippell, 1835 ; zebroides Lönnberg, 1908.