Talk:Small Asian Mongoose

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[edit] Scientific name

Please someone with expert knowledge check out and add the synonymy. This critter is far too often referred to as H. auropunctatus to leave it out. Correct on Mongoose page as necessary. Thanks. Dysmorodrepanis 02:30, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

ITIS (cached copy) says H. auropunctatus is a junior synonym. MSW server didnt seem to be responding. Shyamal 16:14, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merged

Went ahead and merged H. javanicus into this. Shyamal 16:07, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] A few details

This species is universally referred to by the common name "small Indian mongoose" in scientific literature. Silly, I know, since it's found so widely throughout Asia. But perhaps it would be wise to move this page to another one with the title "small Indian mongoose"?

I've removed the line that said that this species is the basis of Rikki Tikki Tavi. I think Kipling was surely referring to an Indian gray mongoose (H. edwardsii), which is twice as big and is the champion snake-fighting mongoose in India. Eggheads-anonymous 20:11, 17 February 2007 (UTC)Warren Hays, PhD

MSW3 lists it as "Small Asian Mongoose", and it can reasonably claim authority for common names. However, that doesn't make it 100% correct, as I've contacted some of the authors of MSW3 in the past and sometimes they've recanted. - UtherSRG (talk) 13:33, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Kipling was principally using references to Central and Northern India such as notes from Robert Armitage Sterndale. The species found there commonly is the Small Mongoose. It is only in southern India that H. edwardsii is commoner. Shyamal 12:10, 24 February 2007 (UTC)