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Galerella is a genus of the mongoose family (Herpestidae) native to Africa and commonly called the slender mongooses.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerella, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2434200	https://www.gbif.org/species/2434200
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	232110	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=232110

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Herpestidae : Galerella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Herpestidae : Galerella

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Ferae	Linnaeus 1758
-	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
-	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora	Bowditch 1821
suborder	Feliformia	Kretzoi 1945
superfamily	Aeluroidea	Flower 1869
family	Herpestidae
genus	Galerella	Gray 1864

Common Name

slender mongoose

Scientific Name

Galerella Gray, 1864

Name Published In

Gray, John E. 1864. A revision of the genera and species of viverrine animals (Viverridae) founded on the collection in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864: 502--579.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Galerella	genus	subjective synonym of Herpestes	stated without evidence	Mivart, 1882
Galerella	genus	belongs to Herpestidae	stated without evidence	Peigné et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

5 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

2.59 - 0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore, carnivore (based on Herpestidae)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

St. G. Mivart. 1882. On the Classification and Distribution of the Aeluroidea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882:135-208

Common Name(s)

Slender Mongoose

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerella

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Youngest
Galerella flavescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Galerella ochracea species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Somalian Slender Mongoose	0 Ma Extant
Galerella pulverulenta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Galerella sanguinea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1864	Galerella Gray
2005	Galerella Peigné et al. p. 287
2010	Galerella Werdelin and Peigne p. 631

References

Mivart St. G. On the Classification and Distribution of the Aeluroidea, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882, 135-208

Peigné S., de Bonis L., et al (2005) The earliest modern mongoose (Carnivora, Herpestidae) from Africa (late Miocene of Chad), Naturwissenschaften 92, 287-292 doi:10.1007/s00114-005-0626-0

Werdelin L., Peigne S. (2010) Carnivora, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, 603-657

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 384 Addition to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology of the names of fifty-two genera of the order Carnivora (class Mammalia) including twenty-nine from which have been reported Parasites common to man.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 12(5), 71-190 (1956) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Wilson & Reeder, 1993 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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