Bdeogale

Bdeogale
Drawing, 1850
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Herpestidae
Subfamily: Herpestinae
Genus: Bdeogale
Peters, 1850
Type species
Bdeogale crassicauda
Peters, 1850
Species

see text

Bdeogale crassicauda - blue
Bdeogale jacksoni - violet
Bdeogale nigripes - green

Bdeogale is a mongoose genus that was proposed by Wilhelm Peters in 1850 based on a mongoose specimen collected in Mozambique.[1] Bdeogale species have compact paws with four symmetrical toes, round ears and a blunt muzzle with a broad round and bare rhinarium. The genus contains four species that are primarily terrestrial and omnivorous and forage in dense vegetation.[2]

  1. ^ Peters, W. (1850). "Bdeogale". Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin: 94.
  2. ^ Kingdon, J. (2015). "Bdeogale". The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (Second ed.). London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 441. ISBN 9781472925312.