Galidictis

Galidictis
	Grandidier's mongoose (Galidictis grandidieri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Infraclass:	Placentalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Eupleridae
Subfamily:	Galidiinae
Genus:	Galidictis; I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1839
Type species
	Mustela striata; I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1837
Species
	Galidictis fasciata; Galidictis grandidieri
	Galidictis ranges

Galidictis is a genus in the subfamily Galidiinae of the family Eupleridae: a group of carnivorans that are endemic to Madagascar.^[1]

The name is from two ancient Greek words that both approximately mean ‘weasel’: galid- (see Galidia) and iktis.^[2] Compare the word Galictis (grison, a closer relative of the weasel).

It contains the following two species and two subspecies:^[1]

Image	Scientific name	Subspecies	Common name	Distribution
	Galidictis fasciata	Galidictis fasciata fasciata Galidictis fasciata striatus	Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose	Madagascar
	Galidictis grandidieri		Grandidier's mongoose	Madagascar

References

1 2 Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. "Galidictis". ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
↑ Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary attributes it to "NL, fr. Gk galideus young weasel + iktis yellow-breasted marten [an ambiguous common name that might be the weasel]." However, Lewis and Short describes ictis (ἴκτις) as simply "a kind of weasel". Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Brill's New Pauly likewise also writes that "ἴκτις/íktis may be a weasel".

[MSW3-1] 1 2 Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. "Galidictis". ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

[2] Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary attributes it to "NL, fr. Gk galideus young weasel + iktis yellow-breasted marten [an ambiguous common name that might be the weasel]." However, Lewis and Short describes ictis (ἴκτις) as simply "a kind of weasel". Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine Brill's New Pauly likewise also writes that "ἴκτις/íktis may be a weasel".

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