Martes gwatkinsii Horsfield, 1851 . Cat. Mamm. Mus. E. India Co. p. 90.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Madras" [India] .

DISTRIBUTION: S India.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (India); IUCN - Indeterminate.

COMMENTS: Included in Martes flavigula by Honacki et al. (1982) and Corbet (1978c); however, separated by Bonhote (19016), Pocock (1936a, 1941a), Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), and Anderson (1970).