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

The collared mongoose (Herpestes semitorquatus) is a mongoose species in the family Herpestidae native to Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

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.

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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