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:

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Galidictis in languages:

Finnish
juovamangustit
Italian
Mangusta del Madagascar
Russian
Широкополосые мунго

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