Viverra zibetha Linnaeus 1758

Viverra zibetha Linnaeus 1758, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., Vol. 1: 44.

Type Locality: "Indiis", subsequently restricted by Thomas (1911 a:137) to "Bengal" .

Vernacular Names: Large Indian Civet.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Viverra zibetha subsp. zibetha Linnaeus 1758

Subspecies Viverra zibetha subsp. ashtoni Swinhoe 1864

Subspecies Viverra zibetha subsp. hainana Wang and Xu 1983

Subspecies Viverra zibetha subsp. picta Wroughton 1915

Subspecies Viverra zibetha subsp. pruinosus Wroughton 1917

Distribution: Burma, Cambodia, China (Anhui, Shaanxi, Zhejiang and Jiangsu), India, Indonesia, Laos, Western Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: See Walston and Veron (2001) for inclusion of V. tainguensis here. Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1933 a) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).