| Mungos | |
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| Banded mongoose, Mungos mungo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Herpestidae |
| Subfamily: | Mungotinae |
| Genus: | Mungos E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier, 1795 |
| Type species | |
| Viverra mungo Gmelin, 1788 | |
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range of M. mungo
range of M. gambianus
region of sympatry
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Mungos is a mongoose genus that was proposed by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier in 1795.[1]
The genus contains the following species:[2]
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Banded mongoose, M. mungo (Gmelin, 1788)[3] | 
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Gambian mongoose, M. gambianus (Ogilby, 1835)[4] | 
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