Herpestes ichneumon
Creators: name: W. Christopher Wozencraft
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Herpestidae
Herpestes
Herpestes ichneumon

description: <i>Herpestes ichneumon</i> (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:43. TYPE LOCALITY: "in AEgypto ad ripas Nili,...in India primario; mansuescit", restricted by Thomas (1911«) to " Egypt ". DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Gibralter, Guinea, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Lybia, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia. SYNONYMS: <i>aegyptiae</i> Tiedemann, 1808; <i>angolensis</i> Bocage, 1890; <i>bennettii</i> Gray, 1837; <i>cafra</i> Gmelin, 1788; <i>centralis</i> Lönnberg, 1917; <i>dorsalis</i> Gray, 1864; <i>egypti</i> Tiedemann, 1808; <i>ferruginea</i> Seabra, <i>1909</i> <i>; funestus</i> Osgood, 1910; <i>grandis</i> Thomas, 1890; <i>griseus</i> Smuts, 1832; <i>lademanni</i> Matschie, 1914; <i>mababiensis</i> Roberts, 1932; <i>madagascarensis</i> Smith, 1834; <i>major</i> Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818; <i>nems</i> Kerr, 1792; <i>numidianus</i> Gray, 1865; <i>numidicus</i> Cuvier, 1834; <i>parvidens</i> Lönnberg, 1908; <i>pharaon</i> Lacépède, 1799; <i>sabiensis</i> Roberts, 1926; <i>sangronizi</i> Cabrera, 1924; <i>widdringtonii</i> Gray, 1842.
description: Published as part of <i>W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press</i> on page 305, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191
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