Mustela strigidorsa Gray, 1855 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853:191 [1855].

TYPE LOCALITY: Not given. Gray (1853) based the type description on a manuscript given to him by Hodgson. Horsfield (1855) later fixed the type locality as, "the Sikim Hills of Tarai." [India, Sikkim] .

DISTRIBUTION: Nepal east through Burma, Yunnan (China) and Thailand to Laos.

COMMENTS: Youngman (1982) suggested that strigidorsa belonged in subgenus Lutreola .