Bdeogale: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Herpestidae
- Genus
- Bdeogale
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Bdeogale
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bdeogale
Bdeogale is a mongoose genus that was proposed by Wilhelm Peters in 1850 based on a mongoose specimen collected in Mozambique. Bdeogale species have compact paws with four symmetrical toes, round ears and a blunt muzzle with a broad round and bare rhinarium. The genus contains four species that are primarily terrestrial and omnivorous and forage in dense vegetation.
...Bdeogale in languages:
- Arabic
- نمس الكلب
- Bokmål
- Buskhalemungoer
- Chinese
- 臭獴屬
- English
- Bushy-tailed Mongooses
- English
- Four-toed Mongooses
- English
- Dog Mongooses
- Finnish
- tupsuhäntämangustit
- German
- Schwarzfußmangusten
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