Paguma larvata (C. E. Hamilton] Smith, 1827) . In Griffith et al., Anim. Kingdom, 2:281.

TYPE LOCALITY: Not given. Fixed by Temminck (1841) as " Nepal ". Gray (1864) discounted this because he knew of no specimens from Nepal, and reassigned the name to two specimens from Canton, China collected by J. R. Reeve (Pocock, 1934a) .

DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China (Hainan Dao north to Hopei, Shanxi and the vicinity of Beijing), India (and S Andaman Isis), Indonesia (N Borneo, Sumatra), Japan (introduced), Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III (India).

SYNONYMS: annectens Robinson and Kloss, 1918; aurata Blainville, 1842; grayi Bennett, 1835; hainana Thomas, 1909; intrudens Wroughton, 1910; janetta Thomas, 1928; jourdanii Gray, 1837; laniger Hodgson, 1841; lanigerus Hodgson, 1836; leucocephala Gray,, 1850; leucomystax Gray, 1837; neglecta Pocock, 1934; nigriceps Pocock, 1939; nipalensis Hodgson, 1836; ogilbyi Fraser, 1849; pallasii Otto, 1835; reevesi Matschie, 1908; rivalis Thomas, 1921; robustus Miller, 1906; rubidus Blyth, 1858; taivana Swinhoe, 1862; tytlerii Tytler, 1864; vagans Kloss, 1919; wroughtoni Schwarz, 1913; yunalis Thomas, 1921.

COMMENTS: Pocock (1934b) included Paradoxurus tytlerii . The "imperfect, no doubt immature skin, without skull (B.M. no. 43.1.12.103)" (Pocock, 1941a:416) provisionally recognized by Pocock as P. lanigera does not contain diagnostic features that would definitively align the specimen with Paguma (Ellerman and MorrisonScott, 1951).