Spilogale Gray, 1865 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865:150.

TYPE SPECIES: Mephitis interrupta Rafinesque, 1820 (= [ Viverra] putorius Linnaeus, 1758) by monotypy (Melville and Smith, 1987).

COMMENTS: Revised by Van Gelder (1959).