Herpestes ichneumon (Linnaeus, 1758) . Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:43.

TYPE LOCALITY: "in AEgypto ad ripas Nili,...in India primario; mansuescit", restricted by Thomas (1911«) to " Egypt " .

DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Gibralter, Guinea, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Lybia, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Portugal, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia.

SYNONYMS: aegyptiae Tiedemann, 1808; angolensis Bocage, 1890; bennettii Gray, 1837; cafra Gmelin, 1788; centralis Lönnberg, 1917; dorsalis Gray, 1864; egypti Tiedemann, 1808; ferruginea Seabra, 1909; funestus Osgood, 1910; grandis Thomas, 1890; griseus Smuts, 1832; lademanni Matschie, 1914; mababiensis Roberts, 1932; madagascarensis Smith, 1834; major Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818; nems Kerr, 1792; numidianus Gray, 1865; numidicus Cuvier, 1834; parvidens Lönnberg, 1908; pharaon Lacépède, 1799; sabiensis Roberts, 1926; sangronizi Cabrera, 1924; widdringtonii Gray, 1842.