Short-tailed Mongoose
Urva brachyura(Gray, 1837)
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Ce graphe représente les interactions écologiques documentées entre Urva brachyura et d'autres espèces, à partir de la base GloBI (Global Biotic Interactions, agrégation mondiale de la littérature scientifique) — source principale, complétée par d'autres jeux de données d'interactions agrégés par Ontologia. Il faut le comprendre comme une carte du savoir documenté, pas une carte de la réalité écologique exhaustive.
Limites principales
- Incomplet. La majorité des interactions écologiques en milieu naturel n'ont jamais été publiées. Une espèce sans liens visibles n'est pas isolée — elle est probablement mal étudiée.
- Biais publication pharmaco-agronomique. La littérature des interactions est polarisée par les enjeux économiques et sanitaires : parasitism / pathogen sur-pondéré sur les mammifères (recherche zoonoses, vecteurs), herbivory sur-pondéré sur les insectes phytophages (entomologie agronomique). À l'inverse, mutualisms, commensalisms et interactions sol/microbiote sont sous-cités. Conseil de lecture : sur les hubs mammifères ou les insectes ravageurs de culture, lire les arêtes parasitism / herbivory dominantes relativement au contexte de littérature, pas comme une mesure d'intensité écologique brute. Détails §10.1.
- Biaisé vers les espèces étudiées. Quelques espèces (oiseaux communs, abeille mellifère, espèces modèles) concentrent disproportionnellement plus d'interactions documentées. Notre score composite ajoute un malus aux hubs de littérature pour atténuer cette dominance visuelle.
- Interactions documentées globalement. Toutes les espèces affichées sont observées en France métropolitaine (les observations sont filtrées sur le territoire métropolitain), mais les interactions entre elles proviennent de la littérature scientifique mondiale. Une interaction documentée à l'étranger peut ne pas se réaliser à l'identique sur votre territoire. Le filtre « restreindre à ma commune » tient compte de la co-occurrence spatiale locale mais ne garantit pas l'interaction effective.
- Sans dimension temporelle. Les variations saisonnières (migration, floraison, cycle de vie) ne sont pas modélisées.
- Force d'interaction approximative. L'épaisseur des liens reflète le nombre de fois où l'interaction a été rapportée dans la littérature, pas son importance écologique réelle.
Comment nous sélectionnons les espèces affichées
Le graphe affiche au plus 31 nœuds par fiche (1 centre + 15 bulles depth=1 + 15 partenaires depth=2). Le serveur sélectionne intelligemment :
- Bulles famille créées si une cascade taxonomique existe ou si ≥3 espèces directement documentées partagent une même famille — les espèces sont absorbées dans la bulle (pas de doublon visuel)
- Espèces individuelles uniquement quand <3 dans une famille (sans cascade) — relations directes documentées
- Pas d'espèces inférées affichées en doublon — les cascades sont représentées via les bulles famille uniquement
- Partenaires depth=2 sélectionnés via algo priorité : candidat partagé par ≥2 docs de la famille (food web central) → reliant entre bulles → top sum_obs en dernier recours
- Sous-types GloBI traduits en français au survol de la flèche (chasse, parasite, parasitoïde, mycorhize…)
Le toggle Profondeur 1 ↔ 2 client-side cache ou affiche les partenaires depth=2 sans refetch. Filtres règne, type d'interaction, ordres/familles, patrimoniales et commune recalculent côté serveur (slow path live ~1-2 s).
Indicateurs avancés (mode expert) : Modularité Q (Newman 2006, PNAS), communautés (Louvain, Blondel et al. 2008, J. Stat. Mech.), nestedness NODF (Almeida-Neto et al. 2008, Oikos).
Source : GloBI · TAXREF v18 (INPN/MNHN) · BDC-Statuts · Wikidata
1 partenaires écologiques documentés directement dans GloBI.
Partenaires
1
Espèces avec interactions documentées
Types d'interactions
1
Prédation, pollinisation, parasitisme…
Connectance
0.333
Densité des liens dans le sous-graphe affiché
Rang animalia
0 %
Percentile vs ensemble des animalia
Liste rouge IUCN
NT · Quasi menacée↘Décroissante- Évaluation
- 2016 · v3.1
- Altitude
- 0 – 1500 m
- Profondeur
- – m
État de la populationTexte officiel évaluation IUCNExpert
Short-tailed Mongoose population status appears to vary between land-mass. In Borneo it is both geographically and ecologically widespread, and at least locally common (Duckworth et al. in prep.) and, particularly bearing in mind habitat use on Borneo (see 'Habitats and ecology' section), the population is evidently large. In West Malaysia, Wells (1989) traced rather few records, all from lowland forest; a pattern that has not changed. While the species still survives at one of the localities identified by Wells (1989), Krau Wildlife Reserve (Jennings et al. 2010), several camera-trap surveys (which record the species widely on Borneo; Duckworth et al. in prep.) in various other parts of the peninsula have not found it, even though the camera-trapping style successfully found Crab-eating Mongoose Herpestes urva (e.g., Kawanishi and Sunquist 2004, Hedges et al. 2013, K. Kawanishi pers. comm. 2014). Short-tailed Mongoose's occurrence on the peninsula is clearly ecologically localized (probably reflecting a restriction to lowland evergreen forest there; see 'Habitats and ecology' section). No detailed collation of Sumatran records exists. Whilst it evidently occurs widely there (Jennings and Veron 2011), it has not been found by camera-trapping in some large areas with high effort (Holden 2006, McCarthy and Fuller 2014, WCS Indonesia Programme pers. comm. 2006), although it has in others (Maddox et al. 2007, A.M. Mobrucker pers. comm. 2014).
There is no direct information available on the population trend on any land-mass; some inference can be made from habitat trends (see 'Threats' section).
There is no direct information available on the population trend on any land-mass; some inference can be made from habitat trends (see 'Threats' section).
Menaces identifiées(9 menaces classées CMP-IUCN)
5_1_1Intentional use (species is the target)Negligible declinesMinority (<50%)Ongoing5_1_3Persecution/controlNegligible declinesMajority (50-90%)Ongoing5_2_2Unintentional effects (species is not the target)Negligible declinesMinority (<50%)Ongoing5_3_3Unintentional effects: (subsistence/small scale) [harvest]Negligible declinesMinority (<50%)Ongoing5_3_4Unintentional effects: (large scale) [harvest]Negligible declinesMinority (<50%)Ongoing7_2_10Large damsNegligible declinesMinority (<50%)Ongoing2_1_4Scale Unknown/UnrecordedSlow, Significant DeclinesMajority (50-90%)Ongoing2_2_1Small-holder plantationsSlow, Significant DeclinesMajority (50-90%)Ongoing2_2_2Agro-industry plantationsSlow, Significant DeclinesMajority (50-90%)Ongoing
Description complète des menacesTexte détaillé évaluation IUCNExpert
The different habitat use of this 'species' (see 'Taxonomic notes') between land-masses requires consideration of threats specific to each land-mass. There is no evidence that Short-tailed Mongoose can survive in plantations or other non-forest habitats remote from native forest in any land-mass. Similarly there is no evidence that it is hunted (as targeted quarry or as by-catch) in any land-mass at levels high enough to drive declines within remaining suitable habitat. Therefore, forest loss rates are likely to provide a reasonable indicator of population decline rates.
In Borneo the species is geographically and altitudinally widespread, and evidently occurs frequently in degraded and fragmented habitats (Duckworth et al. in prep.). While large-scale deforestation of Borneo in recent decades will have driven large declines in the Bornean population, there is no evidence of major threats within remaining suitable habitat. Some level of retributory killing as a (perceived or actual) predator of small livestock is likely.
In the Malay peninsula, the restriction to altitudes below 160 m and to native forest means that huge declines will have occurred in the latter half of the twentieth century, with the large-scale conversion of lowland forest to plantations. Rates of conversion have recently dropped considerably (because little remains to be converted outside legally protected areas), but the suitability of the present landscape to peninsular Short-tailed Mongoose is difficult to evaluate. There is no meaningful information on patch size required for viable populations, or on dispersal through habitats that cannot maintain the species. Although it is not known to be, it is quite plausible that the peninsular population is in ongoing decline and would warrant conservation attention.
The level of threat on Sumatra is unclear. Lowland forest loss on Sumatra is proceeding extremely rapidly, and if the species is tied to lowland forest there, major declines will be ongoing. However, if it has an altitudinal distribution similar to that in Borneo and if it uses anthropogenic habitats, declines in Sumatra will be much shallower. While an exhaustive presentation of Sumatran records with altitude and habitat condition remains to be conducted, those few records with precise altitude traced for this assessment were all from the lowlands and, because the species is evidently localized on the island, even in old-growth forest, it is possible that current rates and patterns of forest loss on Sumatra are causing serious reductions on the island.
In Borneo the species is geographically and altitudinally widespread, and evidently occurs frequently in degraded and fragmented habitats (Duckworth et al. in prep.). While large-scale deforestation of Borneo in recent decades will have driven large declines in the Bornean population, there is no evidence of major threats within remaining suitable habitat. Some level of retributory killing as a (perceived or actual) predator of small livestock is likely.
In the Malay peninsula, the restriction to altitudes below 160 m and to native forest means that huge declines will have occurred in the latter half of the twentieth century, with the large-scale conversion of lowland forest to plantations. Rates of conversion have recently dropped considerably (because little remains to be converted outside legally protected areas), but the suitability of the present landscape to peninsular Short-tailed Mongoose is difficult to evaluate. There is no meaningful information on patch size required for viable populations, or on dispersal through habitats that cannot maintain the species. Although it is not known to be, it is quite plausible that the peninsular population is in ongoing decline and would warrant conservation attention.
The level of threat on Sumatra is unclear. Lowland forest loss on Sumatra is proceeding extremely rapidly, and if the species is tied to lowland forest there, major declines will be ongoing. However, if it has an altitudinal distribution similar to that in Borneo and if it uses anthropogenic habitats, declines in Sumatra will be much shallower. While an exhaustive presentation of Sumatran records with altitude and habitat condition remains to be conducted, those few records with precise altitude traced for this assessment were all from the lowlands and, because the species is evidently localized on the island, even in old-growth forest, it is possible that current rates and patterns of forest loss on Sumatra are causing serious reductions on the island.
Habitats préférentiels (classification IUCN)
1_6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland★1_9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane★1_8Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp14_4Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens14_6Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest1_7Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level3_6Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist3_7Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude
Mesures de conservation recommandéesStratégies de conservation IUCNExpert
Short-tailed Mongoose is protected in all of Malaysia and Indonesia, but receives little direct conservation attention. This is appropriate on Borneo, but not in West Malaysia. It has been found in many protected areas in Borneo, and several in West Malaysia and Sumatra. The most urgent conservation needs comprise:
Taxonomic clarification. Short-tailed Mongoose populations of (i) peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra and (ii) Borneo are distinct in mitochondrial DNA by a level suggestive of species divergence, and this is supported by dental differences (Veron et al. 2015). If further information shows them to be distinct species, and if the habitat use of the form on Sumatra echoes that in peninsular Malaysia, then the peninsular Malaysia / Sumatra form is a cryptic species that is probably globally threatened (in common with many other peninsula/Sumatran lowland forest obligate mammals and birds).
Habitat-use clarification for Sumatra. The extent to which Sumatran Short-tailed Mongoose uses hill and montane areas, and anthropogenic areas at any altitude, warrants priority assessment, as these attributes have a large effect on how threatened it is on the island.
Site protection in peninsular Malaysia. All evidence suggests that the peninsular Malaysian Short-tailed Mongoose, whatever its taxonomic rank, occupies a narrow and threatened range of habitats. Effective protection of old-growth forest is vital. Much of that which survives is already within protected areas, but these vary widely in their effectiveness at preventing illegal hunting and clearance.
Taxonomic clarification. Short-tailed Mongoose populations of (i) peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra and (ii) Borneo are distinct in mitochondrial DNA by a level suggestive of species divergence, and this is supported by dental differences (Veron et al. 2015). If further information shows them to be distinct species, and if the habitat use of the form on Sumatra echoes that in peninsular Malaysia, then the peninsular Malaysia / Sumatra form is a cryptic species that is probably globally threatened (in common with many other peninsula/Sumatran lowland forest obligate mammals and birds).
Habitat-use clarification for Sumatra. The extent to which Sumatran Short-tailed Mongoose uses hill and montane areas, and anthropogenic areas at any altitude, warrants priority assessment, as these attributes have a large effect on how threatened it is on the island.
Site protection in peninsular Malaysia. All evidence suggests that the peninsular Malaysian Short-tailed Mongoose, whatever its taxonomic rank, occupies a narrow and threatened range of habitats. Effective protection of old-growth forest is vital. Much of that which survives is already within protected areas, but these vary widely in their effectiveness at preventing illegal hunting and clearance.
Actions de conservation (3)Conservation Actions Classification Scheme — IUCNExpert
2_1Site/area management5_4_2National level5_4_3Sub-national level
Stress écologiques (13)Stresses Classification — IUCNExpert
1_1Ecosystem conversion1_1Ecosystem conversion1_1Ecosystem conversion1_1Ecosystem conversion1_2Ecosystem degradation1_2Ecosystem degradation1_2Ecosystem degradation1_2Ecosystem degradation1_2Ecosystem degradation1_2Ecosystem degradation2_1Species mortality2_1Species mortality2_2Species disturbance
Priorités de recherche (5)Research Needed Classification — IUCNExpert
1_1Taxonomy1_2Population size, distribution & trends1_3Life history & ecology1_5Threats3_4Habitat trends
Niche IUCN globaleRealms · Systems · LMEs · Growth forms · FAOs — biogéographie IUCNExpert
Royaumes biogéographiques
Indomalayan
Systèmes (terrestre/eau douce/marin)
Terrestrial
Références bibliographiques (21)Sources scientifiques de l'évaluation IUCNExpert
- Duckworth, J.W. et al. in prep.. Predicted distribution of Short-tailed Mongoose <i>Herpestes brachyurus</i> in Borneo.
- IUCN. 2016. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016-1. Available at: <a href="www.iucnredlist.org">www.iucnredlist.org</a>. (Accessed: 30 June 2016).
- Veron, G., Patou, M.L., Debruyne, R., Couloux, A., Fernandez, D.A.P., Wong, S.T., Fuchs, J. and Jennings, A.P. 2015. Systematics of the Southeast Asian mongooses (Herpestidae, Carnivora) - Solving the mystery of the elusive Collared Mongoose and Palawan mongoose. <i>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society</i> 173: 246–248.
- McCarthy, J.M. and Fuller, T.K. 2014. Records of small carnivores from Southern Sumatra. <i>Small Carnivore Conservation</i> 51: 59–63.
- Chutipong, W., Tantipisanuh, N., Ngoprasert, D., Lynam, A.J., Steinmetz, R., Jenks, K.E., Grassman Jr., L.I., Tewes, M., Kitamura, S., Baker, M.C., McShea, W., Bhumpakphan, N., Sukmasuang, R., Gale, G.A., Harich, F.K., Treydte, A.C., Cutter, P., Cutter, P.B., Suwanrat, S., Siripattaranukul, K., Hala-Bala Wildlife Research Station, Wildlife Research Division and Duckworth, J.W. 2014. Current distribution and conservation status of small carnivores in Thailand: a baseline review. <i>Small Carnivore Conservation</i> 51: 96–136.
- Hedges, L., Clements, G.R., Aziz, S.A., Yap, W., Laurance, S., Goosem, M. and Laurance, W.F. 2013. Small carnivore records from a threatened habitat linkage in Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. <i>Small Carnivore Conservation</i> 49: 9–14.
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- Maddox, T., Priatna, D., Gemita, E. and Salampessy, A. 2007. The conservation of Tigers and other wildlife in oil palm plantations. Jambi province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Zoological Society of London, London (Conservation Report 7).
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- Kawanishi, K. and Sunquist, M.E. 2004. Conservation status of tigers in a primary rainforest of Peninsular Malaysia. <i>Biological Conservation</i> 120: 329–344.
- Van Rompaey, H. 2000. The Short-tailed Mongoose, <i>Herpestes brachyurus</i>. <i>Small Carnivore Conservation</i> 23: 17-21.
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- Payne, J., Francis, C.M. and Phillipps, K. 1985. <i>A field guide to the mammals of Borneo</i>. The Sabah Society and WWF Malaysia, Kota Kinabalu and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Évaluateurs & contributeurs (3)Personnes ayant contribué à l'évaluation IUCNExpert
assessor
Duckworth, J.W., Mathai, J., Ross, J. & Wilting, A.
contributor
Widmann, P., Roberton, S., Gumal, M., Mo�brucker, A.M., Low, C.H.S., Jennings, A., Azlan, M.J., Hon, J., Chua, M.A.H. & Willcox, D.H.A.
evaluator
Schipper, J.
Duckworth, J.W., Mathai, J., Ross, J. & Wilting, A. 2016. Urva brachyura. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T41610A45206655. Accessed on 05 May 2026.
Traits biologiques
20 valeurs · 6 sources
Morphologie(4)
Cycle de vie(1)
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Reproduction(6)
Écologie & habitat(9)
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Répartition mondiale
Aucune observation géoréférencée avec précision suffisante (<10 km) dans GBIF pour cette espèce.
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Note nomenclaturale
TAXREF v18 — INPN/MNHNSynonymes (5)— redirigent vers cette page
- Herpestes brachyurusGray, 1837
- Herpestes brachyurus hoseiJentink, 1903
- Herpestes brachyurus javanensisBechthold, 1936
- Herpestes brachyurus sumatriusThomas, 1921
- Herpestes hoseiJentink, 1903
Sources : Catalogue of Life Cross-References (synonymes) · TAXREF v18 INPN/MNHN (commentaires FR).