Black-legged Mongoose
Bdeogale nigripes
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Mammals
The black-footed mongoose, also called the black-legged mongoose, is a mongoose species native to Central Africa, where it inhabits deep deciduous forests from eastern Nigeria to the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2008.
Classification
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Herpestidae
- Genus
- Bdeogale