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Galidia elegans
Geoffroy, 1837
- ring-tailed mongoose
(mammal)
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Galidia (Genus) - Malagasy ring-tailed mongoose
..Galidia elegans (Species) - ring-tailed mongoose
....Galidia elegans dambrensis (Subspecies)
....Galidia elegans elegans (Subspecies)
....Galidia elegans occidentalis (Subspecies)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1837
Original name
:
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1837:581.
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:
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:
Types
Type, by monotypy, of
:
Galidia
(Genus)
Geoffroy, 1837
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]
:
Galidia elegans elegans
Geoffroy, 1837
Ref:
D.E. Wilson & D.M. Reeder (eds.), 2005
: 2 Apr 2013.
[inferred]
Variants
Different spelling
:
Galidea elegans
I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1837
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
ringstaartmangoeste
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
ring-tailed mongoose
Ref:
W.C. Wozencraft, 2005
: 560.
:
Malagasy ring-tailed mongoose
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