Martes flavigula (Boddaert, 1785) . Elench. Anim., 1:88.

TYPE LOCALITY: Not given; fixed by Pocock (1941a) as " Nepal " .

DISTRIBUTION: Primorski Krai (Russia); Korea; China, west along Himalayan foothills to NW Pakistan; isolates in S India, SE Asia, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (India); U.S. ESA - Endangered as M. f. chrysospila; IUCN - Indeterminate as M. f. chrysospila .

SYNONYMS: aterrima Pallas, 1811; chrysogaster Hamilton-Smith, 1842; chrysospila Swinhoe, 1866; guadricolor Shaw, 1800; hardwickei Horsfield, 1828; henricii Westermann, 1851; indochinensis Kloss, 1916; lasiotis Gray, 1850; leucocephalus Gray, 1865; leucotis Bechstein, 1800; melina Kerr, 1792; melli Matschie, 1922; peninsularis Bonhote, 1901; quadricolor Shaw, 1800; typica Bonhote, 1901; yuenshanensis Shih, 1930 .