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Urva auropunctata

Urva auropunctata

Classification

The small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctata) is a mongoose species native to Iraq and northern India; it has also been introduced to several Caribbean and Pacific islands. Taxonomy Mangusta auropunctata was the scientific name proposed by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1836 for a mongoose specimen collected in central Nepal. In the 19th and 20th centuries, several zoological specimens were described: Mangusta pallipes proposed by Edward Blyth in 1845 was based on mongooses observed in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Distribution

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