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Africa: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Asia: Afghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen
Included taxa
Number of records: 12subspecies Mellivora capensis abyssinica Hollister, 1910
- Ethiopian Ratel
subspecies Mellivora capensis buechneri Baryšnikov, 2000
- Turkmenian Ratel
subspecies Mellivora capensis concisa Thomas & Wroughton, 1907
- Lake Chad Ratel
subspecies Mellivora capensis inaurita (Hodgson, 1836)
- Nepalese Ratel
subspecies Mellivora capensis indica (Kerr, 1792)
- Indian Ratel
subspecies Mellivora capensis leuconota Sclater, 1867
- White-backed Ratel
subspecies Mellivora capensis maxwelli Thomas, 1923
- Kenyan Ratel
subspecies Mellivora capensis signata Pocock, 1909
- Speckled Ratel
Links and literature
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [41629]
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1005860]
ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Mellivora capensis (von Schreber, 1776)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Mellivora capensis Schreber, 1776]Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
Zootier-Lexikon [125:honigdachs-mellivora-capensis&Itemid=245]
Dollinger P.: Zootier-Lexikon
Data retrieved on: 21 November 2018
Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Mellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776)]