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Herpestes ichneumon (Egyptian Mongoose)

Synonyms: Mungos ichneumon; Viverra ichneumon (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), also known as the ichneumon, is a species of mongoose. It may be a reservoir host for visceral leishmaniasis in Sudan.
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Infraspecies

Herpestes ichneumon angolensis (Egyptian mongoose)
Herpestes ichneumon cafra (Egyptian mongoose)
Herpestes ichneumon centralis
Herpestes ichneumon funestus
Herpestes ichneumon ichneumon (Egyptian mongoose)
Herpestes ichneumon mababiensis (Egyptian mongoose)
Herpestes ichneumon numidicus (Egyptian mongoose)
Herpestes ichneumon parvidens
Herpestes ichneumon sabiensis (Egyptian mongoose)
Herpestes ichneumon sangronizi (Egyptian mongoose)
Herpestes ichneumon widdringtonii (Egyptian mongoose)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.2
EDGE Score: 2.5
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.85 lbs (2.20 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 %
Female Maturity [1]  2 years
Male Maturity [1]  2 years
Gestation [1]  74 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [3]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  24 inches (61 cm)
Weaning [1]  61 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Georychus capensis (Cape mole-rat)[4]
Otomys angoniensis (Angoni vlei rat)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Range Map

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
♦ 4Georychus capensis, Nigel C. Bennett, Sarita Maree, and Chris G. Faulkes, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 799, pp. 1-4 (2006)
♦ 5Otomys angoniensis, G. N. Bronner and J. A. J. Meester, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 306, pp. 1-6 (1988)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7International Flea Database
♦ 8Nunn, C. L., and S. Altizer. 2005. The Global Mammal Parasite Database: An Online Resource for Infectious Disease Records in Wild Primates. Evolutionary Anthroplogy 14:1-2.
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