Indian Brown Mongoose

Indian Brown Mongoose

Taxobox
name = Indian Brown Mongoose
status = DD | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Herpestidae
subfamilia = Herpestinae
genus = "Herpestes"
species = "H. fuscus"
binomial = "Herpestes fuscus"
binomial_authority = Waterhouse, 1838

The Indian Brown Mongoose ("Herpestes fuscus") looks similar to the Short-tailed Mongoose from Southeast Asia and is sometimes even believed to be only a subspecies of this latter. The Indian Brown Mongoose is found in southwest India and Sri Lanka.


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