Galidictis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Eupleridae
- Genus
- Galidictis
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Galidictis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Galidictis
Galidictis is a genus in the subfamily Galidiinae of the family Eupleridae: a group of carnivorans that are endemic to Madagascar.
The name is from two ancient Greek words that both approximately mean ‘weasel’: galid- (see Galidia) and iktis. Compare the word Galictis (grison, a closer relative of the weasel).
It contains the following two species and two subspecies:
...Galidictis in languages:
- Finnish
- juovamangustit
- Italian
- Mangusta del Madagascar
- Russian
- Широкополосые мунго