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Recent records and dfstrfbutfon of Western Ghats fs H.f. fuscus , whffe the Indfan Brown Mongoose Herpestes the remafnfng three subspecfes are fuscus Gray, 1837 (Mammaffa: Carnfvora: confned to Srf Lanka (Gffchrfst et af. Herpestfdae) from the southern Western 2009). ISSN 0974-7907 (Onffne) The prfmary habftat of H.f. ISSN 0974-7893 (Prfnt) Ghats, Indfa fuscus fs the evergreen forests, hfgh afftude grassfands-shofa OPEN ACCESS R. Sreeharf 1, Sandeep Das 2, M. Gnanakumar 3, K.P. Rajkumar 4, K.A. Sreejfth 5, Navaneeth Kfshor 6, forests, and adjofnfng tea and Dhaneesh Bhaskar 7, P.S. Easa 8 & P.O. Nameer 9 cofee pfantafons (Mudappa 2002; Mudappa et af. 2008). In 1,9 Centre for Wffdfffe Studfes, Coffege of Forestry, Kerafa Agrfcufturaf the Western Ghats the Brown Mongoose fs seen wfthfn Unfversfty, KAU (PO), Thrfssur, Kerafa 680656, Indfa the afftude range 492m to 2,032m (Mudappa et af. 1 Current address: Xfshuangbanna Tropfcaf Botanfcaf Garden, Chfnese Academy of Scfences, Mengfun, Mengfa, Yunnan 666303, Chfna 2008; Sreeharf et af . 2013). Unff 03 March 2015, the 2,3,4,5,7,8 Forest Ecofogy and Bfodfversfty Conservafon Dfvfsfon, Kerafa conservafon status of the Brown Mongoose was Forest Research Insftute, Peechf, Kerafa 680653, Indfa 6 Kafarfckaf House, Poonjar P.O, Kotayam, Kerafa 686581, Indfa Vufnerabfe (Mudappa et af. 2008). However, the recent 1 [email protected] , 2 [email protected] , IUCN Red Lfst revfsfon has down ffsted the specfes as 3 [email protected] , 4 [email protected] , Least Concern because of addffonaf sfght records of 5 [email protected] , 6 [email protected] , 7 [email protected] , 8 [email protected] , the Brown Mongoose from the Western Ghats, Indfa 9 nameer .po@ kau .fn (correspondfng author) (Mudappa & Jathanna 2015). We summarfze our recent sfght records of Brown Mongoose fn the southern Western Ghats. Ffve fndependent sfghfngs of the Brown Mongoose The famffy Herpesfdae comprfses 34 specfes fn the were made from the evergreen forest near Pandfpath worfd of whfch seven specfes are known from Indfa and camp shed and Athfrumafa base camp, fn Peppara four from the Western Ghats (Mudappa 2013; Nameer Wffdfffe Sanctuary, Thfruvananthapuram Dfstrfct, Kerafa 2015). The Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus fs a (Ffg. 1, Tabfe 1, Images 1 & 2). One pafr was observed specfes wfth restrfcted dfstrfbufon and fs seen fn the frequenfng the premfses of the camp shed durfng the southern Western Ghats and Srf Lanka. Four subspecfes day and nfght feedfng from the ffter. of the Brown Mongoose have been recognfsed by Corbet A Brown Mongoose was sfghted and afso camera & Hfff (1992). They are H.f. fuscus, H.f. phffffpsf, H.f. trapped (Bushneff Trophy Cam fnfrared camera trap) sfccatus and H.f. rubfdor , of whfch the one seen fn the fnsfde the reed patches of Pandfmota, fn Shendurney

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Acknowfedgements: The authors are thankfuf to Chfef Wffdfffe Warden, Kerafa Forest and Wffdfffe Department for granfng permfssfon to carry out the study. We are afso thankfuf to the Deputy Dfrector of Perfyar Tfger Reserve, Wffdfffe Wardens of Eravfkufam Nafonaf Park, Shendurney and Peppara Wffdfffe Sanctuary for fogfsfc support. We afso thank Perfyar Tfger Conservafon Foundafon for the whofe hearted support and encouragement. The fast author thanks the Dean, Coffege of Forestry, Kerafa Agrfcufturaf Unfversfty for encouragement and support.LOGOs We afso thank the anonymous revfewers and the subject edftor for thefr crffcaf comments.

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Image 2. Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus from Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala (9 April 2013) Image 1. Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus from Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala (6 April 2013)

Table 1. Current records of Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus from Kerala, India.

Date Time Record Lat. (N) Log. (E) Alt. (m) Vegetation type

Peppara Wildlife Sanctuary, Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala

06.iv.2013 22:00 Direct sighting 8.670N 77.180E 1,330m Evergreen

09.iv.2013 10:50 Direct sighting 8.670N 77.180E 1,330m Evergreen

09.iv.2013 21:05 Direct sighting 8.670N 77.180E 1,330m Evergreen

07.x.2013 20:30 Direct sighting 8.610N 77.230E 1,010m Evergreen

13.i.2014 23:00 Direct sighting 8.670N 77.180E 1,330m Evergreen

Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary, Kollam District, Kerala

22.xi.2013 23:20 Direct sighting 8.820N 77.220E 1,230m Reeds

23.xi.2013 01:43 Camera trap 8.820N 77.220E 1,240m Evergreen

Pambanar Tea Estate, Peermade, Idukki District, Kerala

08.ii.2015 09:46 Direct sighting 9.570N 77.030E 1,103m Tea plantation

Periyar Tiger Reserve, Idukki District, Kerala

09.x.2015 09:10 Direct sighting 9.490N 77.130E 1,069m Grassland-shola

Pampadum Shola National Park, Idukki District, Kerala

12.x.2013 10:13 Direct sighting 9.700N 77.400E 1,970m Shola

29.vi.2014 07:51 Direct sighting 9.700N 77.400E 1,940m Shola

Eravikulam National Park, Idukki District, Kerala

15.i.2015 21:00 Direct sighting 10.270N 77.080E 2,033m Grassland-Shola

Wildlife Sanctuary, Kollam District, Kerala (Fig. 1, Table and one in Pambanar tea plantation near Peermade and 1, Image 3). one on the Kottayam-Kumily State Highway (Fig.1, Table The Brown Mongoose was also sighted from different 1). Mudappa et al. (2008) also reported the sighting of parts of Idukki District in Kerala. That includes, one the Brown Mongoose from Peermade. record near the log house on the old Kodaikanal road A Brown Mongoose was sighted from Eravikulam inside the Pampadum Shola National Park, two adults National Park near Poovar camp shed (Fig. 1, Table 1). with a young at shola forest within Pampadum Shola The Brown Mongoose was earlier camera trapped on 9 National Park, one adult with two pups on the forest road December 2012, from the Eravikulam Hut region of the near the Uppupaara camp shed of Periyar Tiger Reserve, National Park (Sreehari et al. 2013).

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© Sandeep Das Tabfe 2. Records of Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus from the Western Ghats

# fn map Locafon * Lat (N) Log (E) Reference

1 Kodagu, Karnataka 12.33 0N 75.80 0E Prater 1971

2 Vfrajpete, Karnataka 12.18 0N 75.80 0E Pocock 1939 Nagarahofe, 3 12.03 0N 76.12 0E Karanth 1986 Karnataka 4 Ooty, Tamff Nadu 11.42 0N 76.68 0E Prater 1971 Parambfkufam Tfger Sreeharf et af . 5 10.40 0N 76.68 0E Reserve, Kerafa 2013 Anamafaf Tfger Mudappa et 6 10.35 0N 77.02 0E Reserve, Tamff Nadu af. 2007 Mudappa et af. 2007; 7 Vafparaf, Tamff Nadu 10.32 0N 76.95 0E Navya et af. Image 3. Brown Mongoose Herpestes fuscus from Shendurney 2014 Wffdfffe Sanctuary, Kerafa (22 November 2013) Sreeharf et af. Eravfkufam Nafonaf 8 10.22 0N 77.07 0E 2013; Present Park, Kerafa study Tfger Shofa, Pafnf Hfffs, Corbet & Hfff 9 10.17 0N 77.38 0E Tamff Nadu 1992 Pambadum Shofa 10 Nafonaf Park, 10.13 0N 77.25 0E Present study Kerafa Hfgh Wavy Srfnfvas et af. 11 Mountafns, Tamff 9.70 0N 77.40 0E 2013 Nadu Pambanar, Idukkf, 12 9.57 0N 77.03 0E Present study Kerafa Peerumedu, Idukkf, Mudappa et 13 9.55 0N 77.01 0E Kerafa af. 2008 Perfyar Tfger Reserve, 14 9.49 0N 77.13 0E Present study Kerafa Shendurney Wffdfffe 15 8.82 0N 77.22 0E Present Study Sanctuary, Kerafa Peppara Wffdfffe 16 8.67 0N 77.18 0E Present study Sanctuary, Kerafa Johnsfngh Kafakkad- 2001; 17 Mundunthuraf Tfger 8.58 0N 77.39 0E Mudappa Reserve, Tamff Nadu 1998

(* some addffonaf records, parfcufarfy those not formaffy pubffshed, from wfthfn or near these sftes are not shown)

(ver. 2.8.1) as 18,612km 2.

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Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Gujarat University Campus, Reappearance of the rare Shingle Urchin Colobocentrotus Ahmedabad, India with additional description of Eilica tikaderi (Podophora) atratus (Camarodonta: Echinometridae) after eight (Platnick, 1976) decades from the rocky shore of Kodiyaghat (Port Blair), South -- Dhruv A. Prajapati, Krunal R. Patel, Sandeep B. Munjpara, Shiva S. Andaman Islands, India Chettiar& Devendrasinh D. Jhala, Pp. 9327–9333 -- Vikas Pandey & T. Ganesh, Pp. 9377–9380

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