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Herpestes urva (Crab-eating Mongoose)

Synonyms: Gulo urva (homotypic); Urva hanensis; Urva urva

Wikipedia Abstract

The crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva) is a mongoose species ranging from the northeastern Indian subcontinent to Southeast Asia, southern China and Taiwan. Throughout its wide range there are many languages and therefore various common names for the species. In particular, according to at least some major dictionaries, the source of the species name urva (which at one time was also the name of the genus, as in: Urva urva) was the Nepali language urvá or arvá
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Infraspecies

Herpestes urva annamensis
Herpestes urva formosanus
Herpestes urva sinensis
Herpestes urva urva

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
28
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.95
EDGE Score: 2.56
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4.107 lbs (1.863 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 %
Gestation [1]  66 days
Litter Size [1]  3
Maximum Longevity [1]  13 years
Snout to Vent Length [3]  23 inches (58 cm)

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
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Prey / Diet

Macaca cyclopis (Taiwan macaque)[4]
Niviventer coninga (Swinhoe's rat)[4]
Petaurista petaurista (red giant flying squirrel)[4]
Pomatorhinus ruficollis (Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Viverricula indica (Small Indian Civet)3

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Paragonimus westermani[5]
Prosostephanus industrius <Unverified Name>[5]
Pseudocryptotropa sichuanensis[5]
Schistosoma japonicum[5]

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
♦ 4Food habits of three carnivore species (Viverricula indica, Herpestes urva, and Melogale moschata) in Fushan Forest, northern Taiwan, Shun-An Chuang and Ling-Ling Lee, J. Zool., Lond. (1997) 243, 71-79
♦ 5Gibson, 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
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