| Indian brown mongoose | |
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| Western Ghats, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Herpestidae |
| Genus: | Urva |
| Species: | U. fusca
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| Binomial name | |
| Urva fusca Waterhouse, 1838
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| Indian brown mongoose range | |
| Synonyms | |
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Herpestes fuscus | |
The Indian brown mongoose or brown mongoose (Urva fusca) is a mongoose species native to the Western Ghats in India and the western coast in Sri Lanka and introduced to Fiji.[2] It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List.[1]
- ^ a b Mudappa, D.; Jathanna, D. (2015). "Herpestes fuscus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T41612A45207051.
- ^ Veron, Geraldine; Patou, Marie-Lilith; Simberloff, Daniel; McLenachan, Patricia A.; Morley, Craig G. (1 July 2010). "The Indian brown mongoose, yet another invader in Fiji". Biological Invasions. 12 (7): 1947–1951. doi:10.1007/s10530-009-9616-z. ISSN 1573-1464.