Felis viverrina Bennett, 1833 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833:68.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, Kerala, Malabar Coast .

DISTRIBUTION: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, east to Vietnam and Taiwan (SW); south to Sumatra, Java, and Bali.

COMMENT: Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951, restricted the type locality to "Malabar Coast."

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II as Felidae .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412007001029001 as F. viverrinus (sic).