Salanoia concolor (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1837)

[Galidia] unicolor I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1837, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 5: 581.

Type Locality: " Madagascar ".

Vernacular Names: Brown-tailed Mongoose.

Synonyms: Salanoia olivacea (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1839); Salanoia unicolor (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1837) .

Distribution: Endemic to Madagascar.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1839) noted that his first listed species name, unicolor, was a typographical error and should have been concolor (Coetzee, 1977 b:35) .