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Eupleres major

Eupleres major
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Eupleridae
Subfamily: Euplerinae
Genus: Eupleres
Species: E. major
Binomial name
Eupleres major
Lavauden, 1929


Eupleres major, the western falanouc, is a rare mongoose-like mammal endemic to Madagascar and classified in the carnivoran family Eupleridae.

Recognized only in 2010, it is in the genus Eupleres.

It is found in humid rainforest and marshes in northwest Madagascar and also in the dry deciduous forest in the west.



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