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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCarnivora
- FamilyHerpestidae
Observations recorded433
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 236
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Herpestidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- Dr Congo
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Crossarchus
- Named after
- Boyd Alexander
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Crossarchus alexandri
- Commons category
- Crossarchus alexandri
- taxon common name
- Alexander’s Kusimanse
- short name
- C. alexandri
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander's kusimanse (Crossarchus alexandri) is a mongoose species native to Central African rainforests. The species was first described in 1907 by Oldfield Thomas and R. C. Wroughton based on specimens collected by Boyd Alexander, and named after Alexander himself. It is largely restricted to northern Democratic republic of Congo, and western Uganda. It is classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crossarchus alexandri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.