Urva urva

Familia: Herpestidae
Subfamilia: Herpestinae
Genus: Urva
Species:
Subspecies: U. u. annamensis – U. u. formosanus – U. u. sinensis – U. u. urva

Urva urva (Hodgson, 1836)

Type locality: "Central and Northern Regions"; Nepal

• Gulo urva Hodgson, 1836: 238 [Protonym]
• Herpestes urva (Hodgson, 1836) Anderson, 1879: 180
• Urva urva (Hodgson, 1836) Patou et al., 2009: 78

• Hodgson, B.H. 1836. Synoptical descriptions of sundry new animals, enumerated in the Catalogue of Nipalese Mammals. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 5: 231–238. BHL Reference page. 
• Anderson, J. 1878 [1879]. Anatomical and zoological researches: comprising an account of the zoological results of the two expeditions to western Yunnan in 1868 and 1875; and a monograph of the two cetacean genera, Platanista and Orcella. Vols. I. [Text], II. [Plates]. London: B. Quaritch. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.50434 Reference page. 
• Patou, M.-L., Mclenachan, P.A., Morley, C.G., Couloux, A., Jennings, A.P. & Veron, G. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of the Herpestidae (Mammalia, Carnivora) with a special emphasis on the Asian Herpestes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53(1): 69–80. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.038 ResearchGate Reference page. 

• van Rompaey, H. 2001. The Crab-eating mongoose, Herpestes urva. Small Carnivore Conservation, 25: 12–17.