Herpestes javanicus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818) . Descrip, de L'Egypte, 2:138.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Java " .

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam. Introduced to Cuba, Dominican Republic, Fiji Isis, Hawaiian Isis, Jamacia, Japan, Puerto Rico, Surinam, West Indies, and many other tropical regions.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (India) as H. auropunctatus .

SYNONYMS: auropunctata Hodgson, 1836; birmanicus Thomas, 1886; exilis Gervais, 1841; helvus Ryley, 1914; incertus Kloss, 1917; nepalensis Gray, 1837; pallipes Blyth, 1845; peninsulae Schwarz, 1910; perakensis Kloss, 1917; persicus Gray, 1864; rubrifrons Allen, 1909; rutilus Gray, 1861; siamensis Kloss, 1917.

COMMENTS: Bechthold (1939), Pocock (1941«), and Lekagul and McNeeley (1977) included Mangusta auropunctata . Wells (1989) discussed the situation for the morphotypes in Indochina. Reviewed by Nellis (1989, Mammalian Species, 342, as H. auropunctatus).