| Liberian mongoose | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Herpestidae |
| Genus: | Liberiictis Hayman, 1958 |
| Species: | L. kuhni[1]
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| Binomial name | |
| Liberiictis kuhni[1] Hayman, 1958
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| Range of the Liberian mongoose | |
The Liberian mongoose (Liberiictis kuhni) is a mongoose species native to Liberia and Ivory Coast.[2] It is the only member of the genus Liberiictis.[3] Phylogenetic analysis shows it is closely related to other small, social mongooses and that the banded mongoose is its closest relative.[4]
- ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Species Liberiictis kuhni". 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. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Taylor, M.E.; Greengrass, E.J.; Dunham, A.; Do Linh San, E. (2016). "Liberiictis kuhni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T11933A45198780. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T11933A45198780.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Genus Liberiictis". 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. 532–628. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ Veron, G.; Colyn, M.; Dunham, A. E.; Taylor, P.; Gaubert, P. (2004). "Molecular systematics and origin of sociality in mongooses (Herpestidae, Carnivora)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 30 (3): 582–598. doi:10.1016/s1055-7903(03)00229-x. PMID 15012940.