Hemigalus derbyanus (Gray, 1837) . Mag. Nat. Hist. [Charlesworth's], 1:579.

TYPE LOCALITY: Not given. Fixed by Gray (1837) as "in Peninsulâ Malayanâ" .

DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Burma, Indonesia (Sipora Isl, South Pagi Isl, Borneo, Sumatra), Malaysia, Thailand.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: boiei Müller, 1838; derbianus Thomas, 1915; derbyi Temminck, 1841; incursor Thomas, 1915; invisus Gray, 1830; minor Miller, 1913; zebra Gray, 1837 .

COMMENTS: Gervais (1841) was the first to place in Hemigalus . Gray (1849) later considered Paradoxurus derbyanus a junior synonym of Viverra hardwicki Gray, 1830, and placed it also in the genus Hemigalea after Jourdan (1837). However, V. hardwicki is a junior synonym of Prionodon linsang Raffles, 1821 .