Suricata

{{Short description|Genus of mammal}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Meerkat 037.jpg

| image_caption = Meerkat (Suricata suricatta)

| fossil_range = Early Pleistocene - Recent

| taxon = Suricata

| authority = Desmarest, 1804

| type_species = Mustela suricatta

| type_species_authority = Schreber, 1776

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *Suricata suricatta - Meerkat

}}

Suricata is a genus of mongoose that is endemic to Africa. The oldest species known is the extinct Suricata major that lived about 1.8 million years ago in South Africa.{{cite book |last1=Werdelin |first1=Lars |last2=Sanders |first2=William Joseph |title=Cenozoic Mammals of Africa |date=2010 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520257214 |page=631}}{{cite book |last1=Avery |first1=D. Margaret |title=A Fossil History of Southern African Land Mammals |date=2019 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108480888 |page=104}} The only species alive is the meerkat (Suricata suricatta).

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{{Carnivora|F.}}

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Category:Carnivoran genera

Category:Mammal genera with one living species

Category:Taxa named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

Category:Mongooses