Salanoia

Salanoia is a genus of euplerid carnivoran with two currently described species found in Madagascar.^[1] They are mongoose-like, which is reflected in the older versions of their English names, for example brown-tailed mongoose which is now called brown-tailed vontsira.^[2] The name Salanoia is derived from salano, one of the vernacular names for Salanoia concolor.^[2]

Salanoia
Brown-tailed mongoose (Salanoia concolor)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Eupleridae
Subfamily:	Galidiinae
Genus:	Salanoia Gray, 1864
Type species
Galidia concolor I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1837
Species
Salanoia concolor Salanoia durrelli[1]
Salanoia ranges

Vontsira is a Malagasy vernacular name that seems to apply to a few local species of local mongoose-like carnivores in the related genera Salanoia, Galidia, and Galidictis.^[2]

There have been new specimens found of Salanoia in Lac Alaotra, Madagascar. This new species have different physical characteristics from S. Concolor but have genetic similarities. However, there is morphological divergence that justifies this specimen as a new species of Salanoia.