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{{For|the fungus genus|Galerella (fungus)}}
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| name = ''Galerella''<ref name=msw3>{{MSW3 | id = 14000523| heading = ''Galerella''}}</ref>
| image = Cape Gray Mongoose on Lion's Head (29813836777).jpg
| image_caption = ] (''G. pulverulenta'') in ]
| taxon = Galerella
| authority = ], 1864
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
| range_map = Galerella ranges.png
| range_map_caption = ''Galerella'' ranges
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'''''Galerella''''' is a genus of the ] ] (Herpestidae) native to ] and commonly called the '''slender mongooses'''.<ref name=msw3/>
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There are four or five ] in this genus, with more than 30 ].

Four of the species have long been established:<ref name=msw3/>
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! Image !! Name !! Distribution
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|] || ] ''G. flavescens'' || Angola and Namibia
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| ] ||] ''G. ochracea'' ||Somalia
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|] ||] ''G. pulverulenta'' {{small|(], 1839)}}<ref>{{cite journal |author=Wagner, J.A. |date=1839 |title=Über die Verwandtschafts-Verhältnisse der Pharaonsratte |journal=Gelehrte Anzeigen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München |volume=9 |issue=183 |page=425–429 |url=https://archive.org/details/gelehrteanzeig0910bayeuoft/page/212/mode/2up}}</ref>
||South Africa, Lesotho and southern Namibia
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|] ||] ''Galerella sanguinea'' || sub-Saharan Africa
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|] ||] ''G. nigrata'' ||Angola and Namibia
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A recent addition is the ] ''G. nigrata'', which now is considered a separate species by many scientists, following genetic analysis. It was previously seen as a variant of ''Galerella sanguinea''.<ref name="Tromp">{{cite journal | author = Tromp, S. | journal = University of Queensland | title = Introducing the black mongoose | url = http://www.berglabs.org/people/sara/Poster%20UQ%202007.pdf | year = 2007 | access-date = 2014-08-12 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072716/http://www.berglabs.org/people/sara/Poster%20UQ%202007.pdf | archive-date = 2016-03-04 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

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