Prionailurus viverrinus (Bennett 1833)

[Felis] viverrina Bennett 1833, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1833: 68.

Type Locality: "from the continent of India ".

Vernacular Names: Fishing Cat.

Synonyms: Prionailurus bennettii (Gray 1867); Prionailurus himalayanus (Jardine 1834); Prionailurus rhizophoreus Sody 1936; Prionailurus viverriceps (Hodgson 1836) .

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia (Peninsular), Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Grouped with Prionailurus by Weigel (1961), Hemmer (1978), Kratochvíl (1982 c), Groves (1982 a), Salles (1992), Johnson and O’Brien (1997), Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999), and Mattern and McLennan (2000). Synonyms allocated according to Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).