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Genus of carnivores

Mungos

Mungos

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instance oftaxon
taxon nameMungos
taxon rankgenus

Mungos is a mongoose genus that was proposed by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier in 1795.

The genus contains the following species:

Image Name Distribution
Banded mongoose, M. mungo (Gmelin, 1788)
Gambian mongoose, M. gambianus (Ogilby, 1835)

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