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Herpestidae

family of mammals
Taxon taxon Q80479

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
taxon
Code of nomenclature
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature[6]
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), The Encyclopedia Americana, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[7][8][9][10]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]
Parent taxon
Feliformia, Herpestoidea[3][4]
Taxon common name
ihneumoni, mangustowate, Mangusten[11][12][13]
Taxon name
Herpestidae[5]
Taxon rank
family[2]
🏷️ Also known as
en mongoose en herpestid en mongoose family en mongooses en herpestids ar نمسيات cs promyka cs Herpestidae cs promyky cs promykovití cs promykovité da Manguster de Manguste de Mangusten de Herpestidae el Μαγκούστα el Ερπηστίδες es Herpestidos es Herpéstidos es Herpéstido
🔖 Identifiers · 50
GND ID
4339481-4
OpenAlex ID
C2779210674
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dwarf mongoose Korkeasaari zoo.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Herpestidae
AccessScience ID
432300
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300250263
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/11531
BOLD Systems taxon ID
27147
Biblissima authority ID
Muschampia proto
BioLib taxon ID
2059
Catalogue of Life ID
624SY
Dyntaxa ID
6007814
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EPPO Code
1HRPSF
Encyclopedia of Life ID
7673
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/mongoose
Fauna Europaea ID
12643
Fauna Europaea New ID
a51ea3ac-25b6-4dad-94b1-7da2519e9a21
Fossilworks taxon ID
66287
Freebase ID
/m/01f0zq
GBIF taxon ID
9678
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
mangosta-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0115169
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
mungo
Harper's tag
mongooses
INaturalist taxon ID
41893
IRMNG ID
104273
ITIS TSN
180611
KBpedia ID
Mongoose
Lex ID
manguster
Library of Congress Children's Subject Headings ID
sj2021053746
MSW ID
14000477
MeSH descriptor ID
D008988
MeSH tree code
B01.050.150.900.649.313.750.377.875
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2779210674
NBIC scientific name ID
170143
NBN System Key
NHMSYS0000376749
NCBI taxonomy ID
9697
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007546508305171
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
177065
Open Tree of Life ID
42311
Paleobiology Database taxon ID
66287
TaiCOL ID (new version)
t0006120
Topic's main category
Category:Mongooses, Category:Herpestidae
Treccani ID
mangusta
UMLS CUI
C0600271
Vikidia article ID
fr:Mangouste
Wellcome Collection concept ID
wn86xm3s
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
02140201-n
YSO ID
12472
Yale LUX ID
concept/f1303e3c-b99e-4377-bb75-3838e988523e

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 6
Herpestes, Bdeogale, Galerella, Atilax, Herpestinae, Ichneumia
Parent taxon 2
Feliformia, Herpestoidea
Code of nomenclature 1
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
Instance of 1
taxon
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Taxon rank 1
family
Topic's main category 1
Category:Mongooses
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Mongooses
← Main food source 1
leopard
← SNARC ID 1
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
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Summary

Herpestidae is a taxon[1].

Related Entities

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Mammal Species of the World (Third edition). Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-10-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 112
    GND ID → 4339481-4
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'am', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'av', 'avk', 'az', 'azb', 'ban', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||zu, vi, pt, sv */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
  2. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Muschampia proto
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q293271, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → mongooses
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: mongooses, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289943591|mongooses (#289943591)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix"
  4. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Feliformia, Herpestoidea
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → taxon
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ YSO ID: 12472, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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