Cynogale bennettii Gray, 1837 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:88 [1837].

TYPE LOCALITY: " Sumatra " [Indonesia].

DISTRIBUTION: Brunei, Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo), Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II. IUCN - Insufficiently known; Cynogale populations from Vietnam (C. lowei) considered by IUCN to have high conservation priority status for viverrids (Schreiber et al., 1989).

SYNONYMS: barbatus Müller, 1838; carcharias de Blainville, 1837; lowei Pocock, 1933.

COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1933d). Includes C. lowei, which is only known from the type, a poorly preserved juvenile skin from N Vietnam (Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951).