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Herpestes brachyurus (Short-tailed Mongoose)

Synonyms: Herpestes hosei; Urva brachyura

Wikipedia Abstract

Hose's mongoose (Herpestes brachyurus hosei) is a subspecies of the short-tailed mongoose, but it is sometimes considered a separate species instead, Herpestes hosei. It is only known from a single specimen, an adult female taken in the Baram district, Sarawak, Malaysia, in 1893. Apart from having reddish brown short hair, straighter claws and more slender, smaller skull with a less rounded coronoid process on the lower jaw, it resembles other subspecies of the short-tailed mongoose.
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Infraspecies

Herpestes brachyurus brachyurus (Short-tailed mongoose)
Herpestes brachyurus hosei (Short-tailed mongoose)
Herpestes brachyurus javanensis
Herpestes brachyurus palawanus
Herpestes brachyurus parvus
Herpestes brachyurus sumatrius

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
25
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 9.9
EDGE Score: 2.39
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.117 lbs (1.414 kg)
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 %
Litter Size [1]  3.5
Maximum Longevity [3]  9 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  21 inches (53 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Philippines Philippines No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Range Map

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External References

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
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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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