Family Herpestidae Bonaparte, 1845 . Cat. Meth. Mamm. Europe, p. 3.

SYNONYMS: Mungotidae Pocock, 1916.

COMMENTS: Type genus: Herpestes liliger, 1811 (Melville and Smith, 1987). For separation of taxa included here from Viverridae (after Simpson, 1945), see comments under Viverridae .