Eupleres goudotii Doyère, 1835 . Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat., 3:45.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Tamatave" [Madagascar, 18° 10'S, 49°23'E] .

DISTRIBUTION: Endemic to Madagascar.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. IUCN - Vulnerable; considered by IUCN to have high conservation priority status for viverrids (Schreiber et al., 1989).

SYNONYMS: major Lavauden, 1929 .

COMMENTS: Includes E. major (Albignac, 1973; Coetzee, 1977b).