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Definition of Herpestes
1. Noun. Mongooses.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Viverridae, Family Viverrinae, Viverridae, Viverrinae
Member holonyms: Mongoose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herpestes
Literary usage of Herpestes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"Herpestes. Distribution.—Africa, south of the Sahara. a. Stuffed South Africa E.
L Layard, ... Stuffed South Africa EL Layard, 1859, ASB Herpestes galera. ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... Ghats inland from Nellore, where it inhabits forests among the hills. SIZE.—Head
and body, 20 inches; tail, 19 inches. No. 238. Herpestes SMITHII. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Mammalia and Birds of New Guinea, in the Collection of the by John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1859)
"... which is just that of a small Indian Herpestes or Ichneumon, having like that
genus a depressed tail with long spreading hair, broad and depressed at ..."
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