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Indian Brown Mongoose
Urva fusca (G. R. Waterhouse, 1838)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Carnivora - carnivores »  family Herpestidae - civets »  genus Urva

Scientific synonyms

Herpestes fuscus Waterhouse, 1838
Herpestes brachyurus fuscus
Herpestes brachyurus fusca

Other names

= South Indian Mongoose

Least Concern LC  as Herpestes fuscus

Included taxa

Number of records: 5

subspecies Urva fusca flavidens (Kelaart, 1850)
subspecies Urva fusca fusca (Waterhouse, 1838)
subspecies Urva fusca maccarthiae (Gray, 1851)
subspecies Urva fusca rubidior (Pocock, 1937)
subspecies Urva fusca siccata (Thomas, 1924)

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [41612]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Herpestes fuscus Waterhouse, 1838]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1006053]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Urva fusca (G. R. Waterhouse, 1838)]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN 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 Herpestes fuscus Waterhouse, 1838]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008

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