Urva (genus)

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Urva
Herpestes edwardsii at Hyderaba.jpg
Indian grey mongoose
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Herpestidae
Subfamily: Herpestinae
Genus: Urva
Hodgson, 1837
Type species
Gulo urva
Hodgson, 1836
Species

See table and range map

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Native distribution of Urva species
  •   U. javanica
  •   U. edwardsii
  •   U. edwardsii in sympatry with U. javanica
  •   U. smithii in sympatry with U. edwardsii, and locally with U. javanica
  •   U. vitticolla and U. fusca in sympatry with U. smithii and U. edwardsii
  •   U. urva
  •   U. urva in sympatry with U. javanica
  •   U. brachyura
  •   U. semitorquata in sympatry with U. brachyura

Urva is a genus comprising the Asian mongooses within the mongoose family Herpestidae. Species in the genus were formerly classified in the genus Herpestes , which is now thought to comprise exclusively African mongooses; phylogenetic evidence indicates that the Asian mongooses form a monophyletic group and had an Asian common ancestor. Urva forms a clade with Xenogale and Atilax , while Herpestes forms a clade with all other African mongoose species. [1] [2]

Contents

An Urva fossil specimen, an upper molar tooth, was excavated in the Ayeyarwady River valley in central Myanmar and is estimated to date to the late Pliocene. [3]

The scientific name Urva was coined by Brian Houghton Hodgson as the specific name of crab-eating mongoose in 1836, [4] and as the generic name in the following year. [5] Urva species have a wide distribution spanning from the Arabian Peninsula to the Indonesian island of Java. [6] The small Indian mongoose (U. auropunctata) has been introduced to several islands in the late 19th century, where it has become an invasive species. [7] [8]

Species

Urva comprises the following species: [1]

ImageNameDistribution and IUCN Red List status
Indian Mongoose (Herpestes edwardsii)- is it- at Hyderabad, AP W 106.jpg Indian grey mongoose (U. edwardsii) (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818) [9] LC [10] Indian Gray Mongoose area.png
Herpe jav 110724-16129 tdp.JPG Javan mongoose (U. javanica) (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818) [9] LC [11] JavanMongoose distribution.png
2007-stripe-necked-mongoose.jpg Stripe-necked mongoose (U. vitticolla) ( Bennett, 1835) [12] LC [13]

Stripe-necked Mongoose area.png

Astonished.jpg Small Indian mongoose (U. auropunctata) Hodgson, 1836 [4] LC [14] Distribution of the Small Indian Mongoose ("Herpestes auropunctatus ").png
Herpestes urva - Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology - DSC02477.JPG Crab-eating mongoose (U. urva) Hodgson, 1836 [4] LC [15] Crab-eating Mongoose area.png
Ruddy mongoose.jpg Ruddy mongoose (U. smithii) (Gray, 1837) [16] LC [17]

Ruddy Mongoos area.png

Herpestes brachyurus.jpg Short-tailed mongoose (U. brachyura) ( Gray, 1837) [16] NT [18] Short-tailed Mongoose area.png
Brown mongoose.jpg Indian brown mongoose (U. fusca) ( Waterhouse, 1838) [19] LC [20]

Indian Brown Mongoose area.png

Herpestes semitorquatus.jpg Collared mongoose (U. semitorquata) (Gray, 1846) [21] NT [22] Collared Mongoose area.png

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