#0470 · 🦊 mammals

Marsh Mongoose

🇳🇱 Moerasmangoeste ·Atilax paludinosus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The marsh mongoose or water mongoose ( Atilax paludinosus ) is a medium-sized mammal, though large for a mongoose. 0 lb). 2 in). It is a member of the mongoose family and the only member...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,084iNaturalist observations
weight 108.5 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,084 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 109 g.
Scientifically named by Frédéric Cuvier in 1829 (197 years ago).