Collared mongoose

Collared mongoose
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Herpestidae
Genus:	Herpestes
Species:	H. semitorquatus
Binomial name
	Herpestes semitorquatus; Gray, 1846
	Collared mongoose range

Their pelage is typically either brown or reddish-brown. It has also been recorded that some of the pelage has been seen to be in some individual mongoose that is reddish-orange, yet it has only been recorded in Sabah which is a Malaysian state.

With the collected information it was recorded that there were 117 occurrences from all the regions not including Brunei and South Kalimantan. The collared mongoose (Herpestes semitorquatus) is a mongoose species in the family Herpestidae native to Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Subspecies

H. semitorquatus semitorquatus
H. s. uniformis

References

^ Mathai, J.; Hearn, A.; Brodie, J.; Wilting, A.; Duckworth, J. W.; Ross, J.; Holden, J.; Gemita, E.; Hon, J. (2015). "Herpestes semitorquatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T41616A45208027. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

Hon, Jason. “RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY.” Predicted Distribution of the Collared Mongoose Herpestes Semitorquatus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Herpestidae) on Borneo, 30 May 2016, pp. 142–148.

Géraldine Veron, Marie-Lilith Patou, Regis Debruyne, Arnaud Couloux, Desamarie Antonette P. Fernandez, Siew Te Wong, Jérome Fuchs, Andrew P. Jennings, Systematics of the Southeast Asian mongooses (Herpestidae, Carnivora): solving the mystery of the elusive collared mongoose and Palawan mongoose, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 173, Issue 1, 1 January 2015, Pages 236–248,

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[iucn-1] Mathai, J.; Hearn, A.; Brodie, J.; Wilting, A.; Duckworth, J. W.; Ross, J.; Holden, J.; Gemita, E.; Hon, J. (2015). "Herpestes semitorquatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T41616A45208027. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |last-author-amp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)

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