Bdeogale Peters 1850

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 : 562

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Type Species: Bdeogale crassicauda Peters 1852

Synonyms: Beleogale Marshall 1873 ; Galeriscus Thomas 1894 .

Species and subspecies: 3 species with 5 subspecies:

Species Bdeogale crassicauda Peters 1852

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. crassicauda Peters 1852

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. nigrescens Sale and Taylor 1970

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. omnivora Heller 1913

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. puisa Peters 1852

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. tenuis Thomas and Wroughton 1908

Species Bdeogale jacksoni Thomas 1894

Species Bdeogale nigripes Pucheran 1855

Discussion: Matschie (1895), Pocock (1916 a), Coetzee (1977 b), Kingdon (1977), and Meester et al. (1986) included Galeriscus Thomas (1894) . Rosevear (1974) believed that no one had advanced any "reasoned argument" for combining Galeriscus with Bdeogale , and followed Schoutenden (1945) and Hill and Carter (1941) who considered them distinct; all have agreed that jacksoni and nigripes are sister taxa.

References

Coetzee, C. G. 1977 b. Order Carnivora. Part 8. Pp. 1 - 42, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 22 Aug 1977]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.

Hill, J. E., and T. D. Carter. 1941. The mammals of Angola, Africa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 78 (1): 1 - 211.

Kingdon, J. 1977. East African mammals: An atlas of evolution in Africa. (Carnivores). Academic Press, New York, 3 A: 1 - 476.

Matschie, P. 1895. Die Saugethiere Deutsch-Ostafrikas. D. Reimer, Berlin, 147 pp.

Meester, J. A. J., I. L. Rautenbach, N. J. Dippenaar, and C. M. Baker. 1986. Classification of southern African mammals. Transvaal Museum Monograph, 5: 1 - 359.

Peters, W. C. H. 1852. Reise nach Mossambique. I. Saugethiere. Druck & Verlag, Berlin, 202 pp.

Pocock, R. I. 1916 a. A new genus of African mongooses, with a note on Galeriscus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 17: 176 - 179.

Rosevear, D. R. 1974. The carnivores of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 723: 1 - 548.

Sale, J. B., and M. E. Taylor. 1970. A new four-toed mongoose from Kenya, Bdeogale crassicauda nigrescens ssp. nov. Journal of the East African Natural History Society and National Museum, 28: 10 - 15.

Thomas, O. 1894. On the mammals of Nyasaland: Third contribution. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1894: 136 - 142.

Thomas, O., and R. C. Wroughton. 1908. The Rudd exploration of S. Africa. -- X. List of mammals collected by Mr. Grant near Tette, Zambesia. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1908: 535 - 552.