Salano

The brown-tailed mongoose, brown-tailed vontsira, Malagasy brown-tailed mongoose, or salano (''Salanoia concolor'') is a species of mammal in the family Eupleridae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is moist lowland tropical forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Taxonomy

The brown-tailed mongoose was first described in 1837 by French zoologist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire under the names ''Galidia unicolor'' and ''Galidia olivacea''. He placed both in the genus ''Galidia'', together with the ring-tailed mongoose (''Galidia elegans''), which is now recognized as the only species of that genus. However, the name ''unicolor'' had been a misprint for ''concolor'', and the name was corrected in an erratum and in a later note by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In 1865, John Edward Gray placed ''concolor'' and ''olivacea'' in their own subgenus of ''Galidia'', which he called '' Salanoia''. In 1882, St. George Jackson Mivart also separated ''olivacea'' and ''concolor'' from ''Galidia'', and placed them in a separate genus ''Hemigalidia'', without mentioning ''Salanoia''. In his 1904 ''Index generum mammalium'', Palmer noted that ''Salanoia'', the first name to be published, was the proper name for the genus. Although Glover Morrill Allen, in 1939, still listed two species, which he called ''Salanoia olivacea'' and ''S. unicolor'', by 1972 R. Albignac recognized a single species only, which he called ''Salanoia concolor''. A second species of ''Salanoia'', '' Salanoia durrelli'', was described in 2010.Durbin et al., 2010

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References

Literature cited

*Albignac, R. 1972. The Carnivora of Madagascar. Pp. 667–682 in Battistini, R. & Richard-Vindard, G. (eds.). Biogeography and Ecology in Madagascar. The Hague: W. Junk B.B., Publishers.
*Allen, G.M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 83:1–763.
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*Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1837
Notice sur deux nouveaux genres de Mammifères carnassiers, les ''Ichneumies'', du continent africain, et les ''Galidies'', de Madagascar
Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 5:578–582 (in French)
Errata

*Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I. 1839
Notice sur deux nouveaux genres de mammifères carnassiers, les ''Ichneumies'', du continent African, et les ''Galidies'', de Madagascar
Magasin de Zoologie (2)1:1–39.
*Gray, J.E. 1865
A revision of the genera and species of viverrine animals (Viverridae) founded on the collection in the British Museum
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1864:502–579.
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*Mivart, St.G. 1882
On the classification and distribution of the Aeluroidea
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882:135–208.
*Palmer, T. 1904
Index generum mammalium: a list of the genera and families of mammals
North American Fauna 23:1–984.
*Wozencraft, W.C. 2005. Order Carnivora. Pp. 532–628 in Wilson, D.E. & Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: a taxonomic and geographic reference. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols., 2142 pp. 

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Euplerids
Mongoose, brown-tailed
Mammals of Madagascar
Endemic fauna of Madagascar
Fauna of the Madagascar lowland forests
Vulnerable animals
Vulnerable biota of Africa
Mammals described in 1837
Taxa named by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot