Viverra civettino Blyth, 1862

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

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scientific name	Viverra civettino Blyth, 1862
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Viverra civettino Blyth, 1862 . J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 31:332.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Southern Malabar" restricted by Pocock (1933«:446) to "Travancore" [ India] .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to S India.

STATUS: U.S. ESA and IUCN - Endangered.

COMMENTS: Considered a subspecies of V. megaspila by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951); however, considered at the specific level by Lindsay (1928), Pocock (1941«), and Wozencraft (1984, 1989b).