Bdeogale crassicauda Peters 1852

Bdeogale crassicauda Peters 1852, Monatsb. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1852: 81.

Type Locality: "Africa orient., Tette, Boror, 17-18° Lat. austr". (pg. 82). Restricted by Moreau et al. (1945:410) to "Tette" [Mozambique].

Vernacular Names: Bushy-tailed Mongoose.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. crassicauda Peters 1852

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. nigrescens Sale and Taylor 1970

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. omnivora Heller 1913

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. puisa Peters 1852

Subspecies Bdeogale crassicauda subsp. tenuis Thomas and Wroughton 1908

Distribution: Kenya, Malawi, C Mozambique, Tanzania (incl. Zanzibar), S and E Zambia, NE Zimbabwe.

Conservation: IUCN – Endangered as B. c. omnivora, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Reviewed by Sale and Taylor (1970) and Taylor (1987).