Mustela nudipes Desmarest 1822

Mustela nudipes Desmarest 1822, Mammalogie, in: Encycl. Meth., 2 (Suppl.): 537.

Type Locality: "L'île de Java ". Locality is in error, fixed by Robinson and Kloss (1919 b) as " West Sumatra " [Indonesia] .

Vernacular Names: Malayan Weasel.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Mustela nudipes subsp. nudipes Desmarest 1822

Subspecies Mustela nudipes subsp. leucocephalus Gray 1865

Distribution: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Borneo).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Pocock (1941 a) believed strigidorsa and nudipes to be closely related. Youngman (1982) placed nudipes in the subgenus Lutreola, Abramov (1999) placed it in subgenus Pocockictis .