World Species : Galerella sanguinea (Slender Mongoose)

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Galerella sanguinea (Slender Mongoose)

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Synonyms: Herpestes sanguineus (homotypic); Herpestes sanguineus orestes; Mungos sanguineus; Mungos sanguineus orestes

Wikipedia Abstract

The slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea), also known as the black-tipped mongoose or the black-tailed mongoose, is a very common species of mongoose of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Infraspecies

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 11.61

EDGE Score: 2.53

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	1.102 lbs (500 g)

Diet ^[2]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[2]	70 %
Diet - Plants ^[2]	10 %
Diet - Vertibrates ^[2]	20 %
Forages - Ground ^[2]	100 %

Female Maturity ^[1]	1 year
Male Maturity ^[1]	1 year

Gestation ^[1]	65 days
Litter Size ^[1]	2
Litters / Year ^[1]	2
Maximum Longevity ^[1]	13 years
Snout to Vent Length ^[3]	19 inches (49 cm)
Weaning ^[1]	55 days

Ecoregions

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Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
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
Guinean Forests of West Africa	Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo	No
Horn of Africa	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen	No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany	Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland	No

Prey / Diet

Cryptomys damarensis (Damaraland mole-rat)

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Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing Species	Common Prey Count
Canis mesomelas (Black-backed Jackal)	1
Caracal caracal (Caracal)	1
Crocuta crocuta (Spotted Hyena)	1
Pseudaspis cana (Mole Snake)	1

Consumers

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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
♦ ⁴Cryptomys damarensis, Nigel C. Bennett and Jennifer U. M. Jarvis, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 756, pp. 15 (2004)
♦ ⁵International Flea Database
♦ 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

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