Angolan slender mongoose
Galerella flavescens (Bocage, 1889)
Status not recordedmammals
The angolan slender mongoose (Galerella flavescens) is a species in the family Herpestidae, order Carnivora. Recorded adults weigh about 750 g.
Quick facts about the angolan slender mongoose
- Weight
- 750 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Active
- By day (diurnal)src for Active
- Lifestyle
- Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the angolan slender mongoose live?
Not recorded
Is the angolan slender mongoose endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the angolan slender mongoose classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classMammalia
- orderCarnivora
- familyHerpestidae
- genusGalerella
- SpeciesGalerella flavescens (Bocage, 1889)
Synonyms Herpestes flavescens, Herpestes gracilis flavescens, Herpestes gracilis var. flavescens, Herpestes nigratus
Other names and names in other languages (2)
- Black slender mongooseEnglish
- Kaokoveld slender mongooseEnglish
Relatives of the angolan slender mongoose
Other species in the same genus Galerella.
Common slender mongoose
Galerella sanguinea
Cape gray mongoose
Galerella pulverulenta
Somalian slender mongoose
Galerella ochracea
CompareAngolan slender mongoose vs Common slender mongooseAngolan slender mongoose vs Cape gray mongooseAngolan slender mongoose vs Somalian slender mongoose
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the angolan slender mongoose?
An adult angolan slender mongoose weighs 750 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
What kind of animal is the angolan slender mongoose?
The angolan slender mongoose (Galerella flavescens) belongs to the family Herpestidae in the order Carnivora.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence). - EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1 - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
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