Taxon profile
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Taxon in country check-lists 
Africa: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Included taxa
Number of records: 11subspecies Atilax paludinosus macrodon J. A. Allen, 1924
subspecies Atilax paludinosus mitis (Thomas, 1903)
subspecies Atilax paludinosus mordax (Thomas, 1912)
- Nyasa Marsh Mongoose
subspecies Atilax paludinosus nigerianus (Thomas, 1912)
- Nigerian Marsh Mongoose
subspecies Atilax paludinosus paludinosus (G. Cuvier, 1829)
- Cape Marsh Mongoose
subspecies Atilax paludinosus pluto (Temminck, 1853)
- Red River Mongoose
subspecies Atilax paludinosus robustus (Gray, 1865)
subspecies Atilax paludinosus rubellus (Thomas & Wroughton, 1908)
subspecies Atilax paludinosus rubescens (Hollister, 1912)
- Kilimanjaro Marsh Mongoose
subspecies Atilax paludinosus spadiceus Cabrera, 1921
subspecies Atilax paludinosus transvaalensis Roberts, 1933
- Transvaal Marsh Mongoose
Links and literature
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [41590]
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Atilax paludinosus (G.[Baron] Cuvier, 1829)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006036]
ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Atilax paludinosus (G. Cuvier, 1829)]
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 Atilax paludinosus G.[Baron] Cuvier, 1829]Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Atilax paludinosus (G. Cuvier, 1829)]