Melogale personata I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831 . In Bélanger (ed.) Voy. Indes Orient., 3(Zoologie):137, pl. 5.[issued 13 March 1831).

TYPE LOCALITY: "environs de Rangoun " (Burma) .

DISTRIBUTION: Nepal through India (Assam) and most of Indochina, including peninsular Thailand and Malaysia.

SYNONYMS: laotum Thomas, 1922; nipalensis Hodgson, 1836; orientalis Blanford, 1888; pierrei Bonhote, 1903; tonquinia Thomas, 1922 .