Galerella Gray 1864

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Galerella Gray 1864

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Type Species: Herpestes ochraceus Gray 1849

Species and subspecies: 4 species with 33 subspecies:

Species Galerella flavescens Bocage 1889

Species Galerella ochracea (J. E. Gray 1848)

Subspecies Galerella ochracea subsp. ochracea J. E. Gray 1848

Subspecies Galerella ochracea subsp. bocagei Thomas and Wroughton 1905

Subspecies Galerella ochracea subsp. fulvidior Thomas 1904

Subspecies Galerella ochracea subsp. perfulvidus Thomas 1904

Species Galerella pulverulenta ( Wagner 1839)

Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. pulverulenta Wagner 1839

Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. basuticus Roberts 1936

Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. ruddi Thomas 1903

Species Galerella sanguinea (Rüppell 1835)

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. sanguinea Rüppell 1835

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. canus Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. cauui A. Smith 1836

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. dasilvai Roberts 1938

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. dentifer Heller 1913

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. fulvidior Thomas 1904

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. galbus Wroughton 1909

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. gracilis Rüppell 1835

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. grantii Gray 1865

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. ibeae Wroughton 1907

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. ignitus Roberts 1913

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. lancasteri Roberts 1932

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. melanura Martin 1836

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. mossambica Matschie 1914

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. mustela Schwarz 1935

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. mutgigella Rüppell 1835

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. orestes Heller 1911

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. parvipes Hollister 1916

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. perfulvidus Thomas 1904

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. phoenicurus Thomas 1912

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. proteus Thomas 1907

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. rendilis Lönnberg 1912

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. saharae Thomas 1925

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. swalius Thomas 1926

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. swinnyi Roberts 1913

Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. ugandae Wroughton 1909

Discussion: Revised by Lynch (1981), Watson and Dippenaar (1987), Watson (1990), and Taylor et al. (1991) who considered these taxa a monophyletic group. Crawford-Cabral (1989 a:2) regarded this group as a "superspecies with several allospecies." These taxa are provisionally separated from Herpestes (sensu latu) following revisions and reviews by Rosevear (1974), Ansell (1978), Smithers (1983), and Meester et al. (1986) (see discussion under Herpestes ). McKenna and Bell (1997) included in Herpestes .