Herpestes palustris Ghose, 1965

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 306

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Herpestes palustris Ghose, 1965 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Calcutta, 18:174.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Nalbani (c 8 km east of Calcutta), North Salt Lake, 24-Parganas district, West Bengal, India " .

DISTRIBUTION: India: West Bengal.

COMMENTS: Wenzel and Haltenorth (1972) speculated that this taxon may be conspecific with auropunctatus (= javanicus ); whereas Ewer (1973), based on Ghose's observation that palustris can emit scent similiar to urva speculated on such a relationship to urva .