Mungos

Mungos
	Banded mongoose, Mungos mungo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Herpestidae
Subfamily:	Mungotinae
Genus:	Mungos; E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier, 1795
Type species
	Viverra mungo; Gmelin, 1788
Species
	Mungos mungo; Mungos gambianus;
	range of M. mungo range of M. gambianus region of sympatry

Mungos is a mongoose genus that was proposed by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier in 1795.^[1]

Quick Facts Scientific classification, Type species ...

The genus contains the following species:^[2]

More information Image, Name ...

Image	Name	Distribution
	Banded mongoose, M. mungo (Gmelin, 1788)^[3]
	Gambian mongoose, M. gambianus (Ogilby, 1835)^[4]

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