Crab-eating mongoose

Crab-eating mongoose
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Herpestidae
Genus: Urva
Species:
U. urva
Binomial name
Urva urva
(Hodgson, 1836)
Subspecies[2]
  • U. u. urva
  • U. u. annamensis
  • U. u. formosanus
  • U. u. sinensis
Distribution of the crab-eating mongoose
Synonyms

Gulo urva
Herpestes urva

The crab-eating mongoose (Urva urva) is a species of mongoose found from the north-eastern Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to southern China and Taiwan. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.[1]

  1. ^ a b Choudhury, A.; Timmins, R.; Chutipong, W.; Duckworth, J. W.; Mudappa, D.; Willcox, D. H. A. (2016) [errata version of 2015 assessment]. "Herpestes urva". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T41618A86159618. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T41618A45208308.en. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  2. ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 569–570. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.