Crab-eating Mongoose

Urva urva

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae

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. Taxonomy Gulo urva was the scientific name introduced by Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1836 who first described the type specimen that originated in central Nepal.

Distribution

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Sources and credits

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Crab-eating Mongoose

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