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Indian brown mongoose
Species of mongoose from South Asia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Indian brown mongoose or brown mongoose (Urva fusca) is a mongoose species native to the Western Ghats in India and the western coast in Sri Lanka and introduced to Fiji.[2] It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List.[1]
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Indian brown mongoose | |
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Western Ghats, India | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Herpestidae |
Genus: | Urva |
Species: | U. fusca |
Binomial name | |
Urva fusca Waterhouse, 1838 | |
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Indian brown mongoose range | |
Synonyms | |
Herpestes fuscus |
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