Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Carnivora > Herpestidae > Herpestes > Herpestes javanicus

Herpestes javanicus (Small Asian Mongoose; Javan mongoose; Indian mongoose)

Synonyms: Mungos javanicus (homotypic); Urva javanica

Infraspecies

Herpestes javanicus auropunctatus (Small Indian mongoose) (Attributes)
Herpestes javanicus exilis (Javan mongoose)
Herpestes javanicus javanicus (Javan mongoose)
Herpestes javanicus orientalis
Herpestes javanicus pallipes (Small Indian mongoose)
Herpestes javanicus palustris (Small Indian mongoose)
Herpestes javanicus peninsulae (Javan mongoose)
Herpestes javanicus perakensis
Herpestes javanicus rafflesii
Herpestes javanicus rubrifrons (Small Indian mongoose)
Herpestes javanicus siamensis (Small Indian mongoose)
Herpestes javanicus tjerapai

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Herpestes javanicus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.45
EDGE Score: 2.44
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.764 lbs (800 g)
Birth Weight [1]  26 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Frugivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  30 %
Diet - Endothermic [2]  20 %
Diet - Fish [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  30 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  10 months 1 day
Male Maturity [1]  4 months 2 days
Gestation [1]  49 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  19 inches (47 cm)
Weaning [1]  50 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Irano-Anatolian Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Prey / Diet

Pavo muticus (Green Peafowl)[4]
Rattus exulans (Polynesian rat)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Prionailurus bengalensis (Leopard Cat)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Paragonimus bangkokensis[6]
Rictularia proni[6]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Green Peafowl, BirdLife International (2001) Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0