Hose's Mongoose

Hose's Mongoose
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae
Subfamily: Herpestinae
Genus: Herpestes
Species: H. brachyurus
Subspecies: H. b. hosei
Trinomial name
Herpestes brachyurus hosei
Synonyms

Herpestes hosei

Hose's Mongoose (Herpestes brachyurus hosei) is a subspecies of the Short-tailed Mongoose,[1] but it is sometimes considered a separate species instead, Herpestes hosei.[2] It is only known from a single specimen, an adult female taken in the Baram district, Sarawak, Malaysia, in 1893. Apart from having reddish brown short hair, straighter claws and more slender, smaller skull with a less rounded coronoid process on the lower jaw, it resembles other subspecies of the Short-tailed Mongoose.[2]

References

  1. ^ Wilson, Don E.; Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds (2005). Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 
  2. ^ a b Francis, C.M. & Payne, J. (1985).A field guide to the mammals of Borneo. Malaysia: Sabah Society