{ { Automatic taxobox

| image = Mungo1.jpg

| image_caption = Grandidier's mongoose (Galidictis grandidieri) | taxon = Galidictis | authority = I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1839 | range_map = Galidictis range.png | range_map_caption = Galidictis ranges | type_species = Mustela striata| type_species_authority = I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1837 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Galidictis fasciataGalidictis grandidieri}}Galidictis is a genus in the subfamily Galidiinae of the family Eupleridae: a group of carnivorans that are endemic to Madagascar.

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

Galidictis

It contains the following two species and two subspecies:

Galidictis

References

Euplerids

Mammal genera

Endemic fauna of Madagascar

Taxa named by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

Galidictis