Carnivores
🐾Indian grey mongoose
Urva edwardsii (É.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818)
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Also called
Urva edwardsii
Conservation status
LCLeast concern
IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.
Population trendStable
Key measurements
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
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- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Facts and figures
Everything we know about the Indian grey mongoose
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
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Where it sits
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderCarnivora
- ›familyHerpestidae
- ›genusHerpestes
- ›speciesHerpestes edwardsi
Full lineage
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- familyHerpestidae
- genusUrva
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
- suborderFeliformia
- familyHerpestidae
- genusUrva
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More about the Indian grey mongoose
Closest relative on this site
🐾 Meerkat — last shared an ancestor ≈ 8.5 million years ago.
In other languages
mangosta grisa de l'Índia (ca), Urva edwardsii (de), Urva edwardsii (es), Urva edwardsii (fr), Urva edwardsii (gl), Urva edwardsii (it) … and 3 more languages
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