Lutrogale perspicillata (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 313

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scientific name	Lutrogale perspicillata (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826)
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Lutrogale perspicillata (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826) View in CoL . In Bory de Saint-Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. Paris, 9:519.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Sumatra " [ Indonesia].

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, and Borneo), Iraq, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: ellioti Anderson, 1878 ; macrodus Gray, 1865 ; simung Lesson, 1827 ; sindica Pocock, 1940; tarayensis Hodgson, 1839 .

COMMENTS: Pocock (1941a), Davis (1978), and van Zyll de Jong (1972) placed perspicillata in the monotypic Lutrogale , considered a subgenus by Pohle (1920); see comments under Lutra . Van Zyll de Jong's (1987) analysis placed as sister groups L. maculicollis and (L. lutra+L. sumatrana).