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Ichneumia albicauda (White-tailed Mongoose)

Synonyms: Herpestes albicauda; Mungos albicaudus

Wikipedia Abstract

The white-tailed mongoose (Ichneumia albicauda) is the largest species in the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It is the only member of the genus Ichneumia.
View Wikipedia Record: Ichneumia albicauda

Infraspecies

Ichneumia albicauda albicauda (White-tailed mongoose)
Ichneumia albicauda dialeucos (White-tailed mongoose)
Ichneumia albicauda grandis (White-tailed mongoose)
Ichneumia albicauda haagneri
Ichneumia albicauda ibeanus (White-tailed mongoose)
Ichneumia albicauda loandae (White-tailed mongoose)
Ichneumia albicauda loempo (White-tailed mongoose)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
6
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
29
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 13.38
EDGE Score: 2.67
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.716 lbs (3.50 kg)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Ectothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  70 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [3]  2 years
Litter Size [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  25 inches (64 cm)
Weaning [1]  9 months 4 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No
Eastern Afromontane Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe No
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No

Predators

Canis mesomelas (Black-backed Jackal)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Arthrocephalus gambiense <Unverified Name>[6]
Ctenocephalides felis strongylus[7]
Echidnophaga gallinacea (sticktight flea)[7]
Toxocara canis[6]
Xenopsylla nubica[7]

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
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Canis mesomelas, Lyle R. Walton and Damien O. Joly, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 715, pp. 1–9 (2003)
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7International Flea Database
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