Mustela strigidorsa Gray 1853

Mustela strigidorsa Gray 1853, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853: 191.

Type Locality: Not given. Gray (1853) based the type description on a manuscript given to him by Hodgson. Horsfield (1855) later fixed the type locality as "the Sikim Hills of Tarai." [India, Sikkim].

Vernacular Names: Back-striped Weasel.

Distribution: Burma, China (Yunnan, Guizhou), India, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Youngman (1982) suggested that strigidorsa belonged in subgenus Lutreola . Abramov (1999) placed it in subgenus Cryptomustela .