Galerella Gray 1864
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Reeder, DeeAnn
Publisher: name: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Galerella

description: Galerella Gray 1864
Galerella Gray 1864, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864: 564.
Type Species: Herpestes ochraceus Gray 1849
Species and subspecies: 4 species with 33 subspecies:
Species Galerella flavescens Bocage 1889
Species Galerella ochracea (J. E. Gray 1848)
Subspecies Galerella ochracea subsp. ochracea J. E. Gray 1848
Subspecies Galerella ochracea subsp. bocagei Thomas and Wroughton 1905
Subspecies Galerella ochracea subsp. fulvidior Thomas 1904
Subspecies Galerella ochracea subsp. perfulvidus Thomas 1904
Species Galerella pulverulenta (Wagner 1839)
Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. pulverulenta Wagner 1839
Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. basuticus Roberts 1936
Subspecies Galerella pulverulenta subsp. ruddi Thomas 1903
Species Galerella sanguinea (Rüppell 1835)
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. sanguinea Rüppell 1835
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. canus Wroughton 1907
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. cauui A. Smith 1836
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. dasilvai Roberts 1938
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. dentifer Heller 1913
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. fulvidior Thomas 1904
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. galbus Wroughton 1909
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. gracilis Rüppell 1835
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. grantii Gray 1865
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. ibeae Wroughton 1907
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. ignitus Roberts 1913
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. lancasteri Roberts 1932
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. melanura Martin 1836
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. mossambica Matschie 1914
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. mustela Schwarz 1935
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. mutgigella Rüppell 1835
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. orestes Heller 1911
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. parvipes Hollister 1916
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. perfulvidus Thomas 1904
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. phoenicurus Thomas 1912
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. proteus Thomas 1907
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. rendilis Lönnberg 1912
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. saharae Thomas 1925
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. swalius Thomas 1926
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. swinnyi Roberts 1913
Subspecies Galerella sanguinea subsp. ugandae Wroughton 1909
Discussion: Revised by Lynch (1981), Watson and Dippenaar (1987), Watson (1990), and Taylor et al. (1991) who considered these taxa a monophyletic group. Crawford-Cabral (1989 a:2) regarded this group as a "superspecies with several allospecies." These taxa are provisionally separated from Herpestes (sensu latu) following revisions and reviews by Rosevear (1974), Ansell (1978), Smithers (1983), and Meester et al. (1986) (see discussion under Herpestes). McKenna and Bell (1997) included in Herpestes.
description: Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 564, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519