Stripe-necked mongoose | |
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Adult in Nagarhole National Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Herpestidae |
Genus: | Urva |
Species: | U. vitticolla
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Binomial name | |
Urva vitticolla (Bennett, 1835)
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Stripe-necked mongoose range | |
Synonyms | |
Herpestes vitticollis |
The stripe-necked mongoose (Urva vitticolla) is a mongoose species native to forests and shrublands from southern India to Sri Lanka.[1]