The first record of Stripe-necked Mongoose Herpestes vitticollis Bennett, 1835 (Mammalia: Carnivora: Herpestidae) from the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India

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Kumpatla Balaji
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2466-4162
Jarugulla Eswar Satyanarayana
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6274-4035

Abstract

There has been no records of the Stripe-necked Mongoose from the entire range of the Eastern Ghats. This is the first photographic evidence reported on distribution of Stripe-necked Mongoose from Papikonda National Park and its adjacent reserve forests in the Eastern Ghats, Andhra Pradesh.  

 

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Jarugulla Eswar Satyanarayana, Research Scholar, Department of Environmental Sciences, University college of Sciences, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh 522510, India

Researcher,Department of Environmental Sciences, University college of Sciences, Guntur,Andhra Pradesh.

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