Short-tailed mongoose
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The short-tailed mongoose (Urva brachyura) is a mongoose species native to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. It inhabits evergreen forest and rural gardens from sea level to an elevation of Template:Convert. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2008.[1]
It was first described by John Edward Gray in 1837.[2]
It is red-brown to black and has black limbs. The head is grayish with a black spot on the chin. Its total body length is Template:Convert including a Template:Convert short tail. It weighs about Template:Convert.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Subspecies
- U. b. brachyura
- U. b. hosei (by some considered a species, Hose's mongoose Herpestes hosei)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[3]
- U. b. javanensis
- U. b. palawanus
- U. b. parvus
- U. b. sumatrius