Melogale orientalis (Horsfield, 1821) . Zool. Res. Java., plate and 4 pages of text.

TYPE LOCALITY: "limited...to...south of Mountain Prahu, between the two prinicpal cones of the central part of Java, the Mountain Sumbing, and...Teggal,...Baggulen and Banyumas...to Gowong in the east." [Indonesia, Java] .

DISTRIBUTION: Java (Indonesia).

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: fusca Guerin, 1835; maccourus Temminck, 1824.