Stripe-necked Mongoose

Urva vitticolla

Classification

Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Herpestidae

The stripe-necked mongoose (Urva vitticolla) is a mongoose species native to forests and shrublands from southern India to Sri Lanka. Taxonomy English zoologist Edward Turner Bennett described this species in 1835. There are two subspecies.

Distribution

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Sources and credits

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Stripe-necked Mongoose

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