Mustela nudipes Desmarest, 1822 . Mammalogie, in Encycl. Meth., 2(Suppl.):537.

TYPE LOCALITY: "L'lle de Java ". Locality is in error, fixed by Robinson and Kloss (1919b) as " West Sumatra " [Indonesia] .

DISTRIBUTION: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo).

SYNONYMS: leucocephalus Gray, 1865 .

COMMENTS: Pocock (1941a) believed strigidorsa and nudipes to be closely related. Youngman (1982) placed nudipes in the subgenus Lutreola .