Herpestes brachyurus Gray 1836

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 567

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Herpestes brachyurus Gray 1836 View in CoL

Herpestes brachyurus Gray 1836 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 88.

Type Locality: "Indian Islands", restricted by Kloss (1917) to "Borneo", however, Thomas (1921 c) believed it to be from " Malacca ". Pocock (1941 a) believed the type to represent a "Malayan Race" .

Vernacular Names: Short-tailed Mongoose.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Herpestes brachyurus subsp. brachyurus Gray 1836

Subspecies Herpestes brachyurus subsp. hosei Jentink 1903

Subspecies Herpestes brachyurus subsp. javanensis Bechthold 1936

Subspecies Herpestes brachyurus subsp. palawanus Allen 1910

Subspecies Herpestes brachyurus subsp. parvus Jentink 1895

Subspecies Herpestes brachyurus subsp. sumatrius Thomas 1921

Distribution: Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatra), Malaysia, Philippine Isls, Singapore, Vietnam.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Bechthold (1939) included hosei (followed here) and fuscus (here considered separate), and listed characteristics suggesting that in some respects, semitorquatus was intermediate between brachyurus and urva ; this was followed by Medway (1977). Bechthold (1939) believed that fuscus (sensu stricto) is most closely related to far-eastern brachyurus forms and considered them conspecific (both forms are short tailed mongooses); however, he gave features of the skull and pelage (used elsewhere at the specific level, i.e., edwardsii vs. javanicus ) that distinguished the S India /Sri Lankan populations from those of SE Asia. Here they are provisionally treated as separate. Schwarz (1947) believed semitorquatus to be a red color morph of the dark brachyurus , although he did not address the most distinguishing feature of the collared mongoose – the collar – present in semitorquatus and absent in brachyurus . Medway (1977), followed by Payne et al. (1985), recognized hosei based on differences in the shape of the coronoid process of the mandible. Fredga (1972) believed fuscus to be intermediate to edwardsii and javanicus , but believed that it should remain separate (followed by Corbet and Hill, 1992). Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1937) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).

References

Allen, J. A. 1910. Mammals from Palawan Island, Philippine Islands. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 28 (3): 13 - 17.

Bechthold, G. 1939. Die asiatischen Formen der Gattung Herpestes. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde, 14: 113 - 219.

Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1992. Mammals of the Indomalayan region. A systematic review. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 488 pp.

Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.

Fredga, K. 1972. Chromosome studies in mongooses (Carnivora, Viverridae). Thesis summary, faculty of sciences of the University of Lund, 11 pp.

Kloss, C. B. 1917. On the mongooses of the Malay peninsula. Journal of the Federation of Malay States Museum, 7 (3): 123 - 125.

Medway, L. 1977. Mammals of Borneo: Field keys and an annotated checklist. Second ed. Monograph, Malay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 7: 1 - 172.

Payne, J., C. M. Francis, and K. Phillipps. 1985. A field guide to the mammals of Borneo. The Sabah Society, Kuala Lumpur, 332 pp.

Pocock, R. I. 1937. The mongooses of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 39 (2): 211 - 245.

Pocock, R. I. 1941 a. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Mammalia. Vol. II. Carnivora (suborders Aeluroidae (part) and Arctoidae). Taylor and Francis, Ltd., London, 503 pp.

Schwarz, E. 1947. Colour mutants of the Malay short-tailed mongoose, Herpestes brachyurus Gray. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 117 (1): 79 - 80.

Thomas, O. 1921 c. Geographical races of Herpestes brachyurus, Gray. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 9, 8: 134 - 136.