Order Carnivora Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1 532 628 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 Herpestes vitticollis Bennett 1835 Herpestes vitticollis Bennett 1835 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835: 67 . Type Locality: "in forests about twenty miles [ 32 km ] inland from Kolun or Quilon, in the Travancore country" [ India ]. Vernacular Names: Stripe-necked Mongoose . Subspecies: : Subspecies Herpestes vitticollis subsp. vitticollis Bennett 1835 Subspecies Herpestes vitticollis subsp. inornatus Pocock 1941 Distribution: S India , Sri Lanka . Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( India ); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).