Mungos E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, 1795 . Mag. Encyclop., 2:184, 187.

TYPE SPECIES: Not given; Viverra mungo Gmelin, 1788, designated by Muirhead (1819) (Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Allen (1919b) discussed the nomenclatural history of this name.