Grandidier's Mongoose

Taxobox
name = Grandidier's Mongoose
status = EN
trend = down
status_system = iucn2.3
status_ref =IUCN2006|assessors=Dollar, L.|year=2000|id=8834|title=Galidictis grandidieri|downloaded=09 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is endangered]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Eupleridae
subfamilia = Galidiinae
genus = "Galidictis"
species = "G. grandidieri"
binomial = "Galidictis grandidieri"
binomial_authority = Wozencraft, 1986

Grandidier's Mongoose ("Galidictis grandidieri"), also known as the Giant-striped Mongoose, is a small mammal weighing between 1.1 and 1.3 lb (500 to 600 g) and living in Southwestern Madagascar, in areas of spiny desert vegetation. It is a pale brown or grayish coloured mongoose, with eight wide, dark stripes on its back and sides. Grandidier's Mongoose is larger than the related Broad-striped Malagasy Mongoose, "G. fasciata", and its stripes are not as wide.

Grandidier's Mongoose primarily eats small vertebrates like rodents and lizards, though it has been recorded eating invertebrates.

Nocturnal and crepuscular, this mongoose lives in pairs which produce one offspring a year, in the summer.

The species is named for Alfred Grandidier.

References

External links

* [http://www.bethel-in.edu/users/wozencc/general/civets.htm Picture of Grandidier's Mongoose]