Echinosorex Blainville, 1838 . C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 6:742.

TYPE SPECIES: Viverra gymnura Raffles, 1822 .

SYNONYMS: Gymnura .

COMMENTS: Gymnura Lesson, 1827, is preoccupied by Gymnura Kuhl, 1824 (a fish); see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:17) and Medway (1977:15).