Herpestes smithii Gray 1837

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 : 569

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Herpestes smithii Gray 1837 View in CoL

Herpestes smithii Gray 1837 View in CoL , Mag. Nat. Hist. [Charlesworth's], 1: 578.

Type Locality: Not given. Thomas (1923) suggested that it was from the " Bombay Region" but this was questioned by Pocock (1937).

Vernacular Names: Ruddy Mongoose.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Herpestes smithii subsp. smithii Gray 1837

Subspecies Herpestes smithii subsp. thysanurus Wagner 1839

Subspecies Herpestes smithii subsp. zeylanius Thomas 1921

Distribution: India, Sri Lanka.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( India); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Gray, J. E. 1837 [1838]. On a new species of paradoxure (Paradoxurus derbianus) with remarks on some Mammalia recently purchased by the British Museum, and characters of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1837: 67.

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

Wagner, J. A. 1839. Die Saugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Supplement 1. Weigel, Leipzig, 551 pp.