Paguma larvata (C. E. Hamilton] Smith, 1827)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 343

Paguma larvata (C. E. Hamilton] Smith, 1827) . In Griffith et al., Anim. Kingdom, 2:281.

TYPE LOCALITY: Not given. Fixed by Temminck (1841) as " Nepal ". Gray (1864) discounted this because he knew of no specimens from Nepal, and reassigned the name to two specimens from Canton, China collected by J. R. Reeve ( Pocock, 1934a) .

DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China (Hainan Dao north to Hopei, Shanxi and the vicinity of Beijing), India (and S Andaman Isis), Indonesia (N Borneo, Sumatra), Japan (introduced), Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( India).

SYNONYMS: annectens Robinson and Kloss, 1918 ; aurata Blainville, 1842 ; grayi Bennett, 1835; hainana Thomas, 1909; intrudens Wroughton, 1910; janetta Thomas, 1928; jourdanii Gray, 1837; laniger Hodgson, 1841; lanigerus Hodgson, 1836; leucocephala Gray,, 1850; leucomystax Gray, 1837 ; neglecta Pocock, 1934 ; nigriceps Pocock, 1939; nipalensis Hodgson, 1836 ; ogilbyi Fraser, 1849; pallasii Otto, 1835; reevesi Matschie, 1908; rivalis Thomas, 1921; robustus Miller, 1906 ; rubidus Blyth, 1858; taivana Swinhoe, 1862 ; tytlerii Tytler, 1864 ; vagans Kloss, 1919; wroughtoni Schwarz, 1913; yunalis Thomas, 1921.

COMMENTS: Pocock (1934b) included Paradoxurus tytlerii . The "imperfect, no doubt immature skin, without skull (B.M. no. 43.1.12.103)" ( Pocock, 1941a:416) provisionally recognized by Pocock as P. lanigera does not contain diagnostic features that would definitively align the specimen with Paguma (Ellerman and MorrisonScott, 1951).