Galerella sanguinea
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
Galerella sanguinea

description: Galerella sanguinea (Rüppell 1835)
[Herpestes] sanguineus Rüppell 1835, Neue Wirbelt. Fauna Abyssin. Gehorig. Saugeth., Vol. 1: 27.
Type Locality: "Kordofan" [Sudan].
Vernacular Names: Slender Mongoose.
Subspecies::
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
Distribution: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde Isls, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritana, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).
Discussion: This engimatic group, reviewed by Taylor (1975) and Watson (1990), is represented by several allopatric populations (a situation similar to the Genetta genetta complex where they are recognized as conspecific). Watson and Dippenaar (1987), in their revision, argued for the separation of nigratus (placed here in flavescens), and swalius (considered here as conspecific), and considered swinnyi Roberts (1913), as incertae sedis (included here), although their study did not include representative samples from NE and W Africa. It is believed that swinnyi has been extirpated from the type locality (Watson, in litt.). Taylor (1989) suggested that the allopatric ochraceus from Somalia warrants full specific status (followed here). Certainly, these studies suggest that a thorough revision, inclusive of all of the African forms of sanguinea is badly needed. Taylor and Goldman (1993) present convincing evidence to suggest that swalius is conspecific with sanguinea, but also see Watson (1990).
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 565, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519