Herpestes ichneumon (Linnaeus, 1758)

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 94

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D0A37EA-8D5B-44D9-B2CC-8161D1E4AF54

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121634

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3874162A-7E05-FF8C-FF42-F8A7B6EB1589

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Plazi

scientific name

Herpestes ichneumon (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

92. Egyptian Mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Subspecies: H. i. ichneumon (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Distribution: Uncommon; restricted to the coastal mountainous habitat and southwestern region ( Fig. 101 View FIGURE 101 ).

Previous records: Al-Quneitra ( Shehab 2002), around Lattakia and Al-Ghota ( Masseti 2009).

Recent records: Amreet (2010), Slenfeh (2014), Kersana and Sqoubin (2021), as-Sarsakiyah and ash-Sheir (2022).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Herpestidae

Genus

Herpestes

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