Endangered
Narrow-striped mongoose
Mungotictis decemlineata
The narrow-striped mongoose, also known as the boky-boky in Malagasy, is a member of the family Eupleridae endemic to Madagascar.
The carnivore
Narrow-striped mongoose is a carnivore in the family Eupleridae (order Carnivora) — Mungotictis decemlineata.
Range and habitat
The narrow-striped mongoose, also known as the boky-boky in Malagasy, is a member of the family Eupleridae endemic to Madagascar. It inhabits the western Madagascar succulent woodlands and northern Madagascar spiny thickets in western and southwestern Madagascar, where it lives from sea level to about 125 m (410 ft) between the Tsiribihina and Mangoky Rivers.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The narrow-striped mongoose is diurnal and lives in matriarchal family groups that practice cooperative rearing of young. The narrow-striped mongoose forages in top soil, ground litter and rotten wood from fallen trees.
A study in the Kirindy Forest revealed that its diet consists foremost of invertebrates. Males often mate with more than one female and are considered polygamous.
In crisis
The narrow-striped mongoose is currently classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List because it occurs in a severely fragmented area and is threatened by habitat loss due to logging and conversion to agriculturally used land.
Narrow-striped mongoose is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Narrow-striped mongoose, Wikidata item Q185677. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
