Viverra civettina Blyth 1862

Viverra civettina Blyth 1862, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 31: 332.

Type Locality: "Southern Malabar" restricted by Pocock (1933 a:446) to "Travancore" [India] .

Vernacular Names: Malabar Large-spotted Civet.

Distribution: Endemic to S India.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India); U.S. ESA – Endangered; IUCN – Critically Endangered.

Discussion: Considered a subspecies of V. megaspila by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951); however, considered at the specific level by Lindsay (1928), Pocock (1941 a), and Wozencraft (1984, 1989 b). Corbet and Hill (1992) raised doubts as to their separation.