Chrotogale owstoni Thomas, 1912 . Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1912(106):17.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Yen-bay, on the Song-koi River, Tonkin " [Vietnam: Yen Bay on the Songhoi River; 21°43'N 104°54'E].

DISTRIBUTION: China (Yunnan, Guangxi), Laos, Vietnam.

STATUS: IUCN - Insufficiently known; considered by IUCN to have high conservation priority status for viverrids (Schreiber et al., 1989).

COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1933d).