Herpestes javanicus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818

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Herpestes javanicus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818

Herpestes javanicus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818 , Descrip. de L'Egypte, Vol. 2: 138.

Type Locality: " Java ".

Vernacular Names: Small Asian Mongoose.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. javanicus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. auropunctatus Hodgson 1836

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. exilis Gervais 1841

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. orientalis Sody 1936

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. pallipes Blyth 1845

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. palustris Ghose 1965

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. peninsulae Schwarz 1910

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. perakensis Kloss 1917

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. rafflesii Anderson 1875

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. rubrifrons J. A. Allen 1909

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. siamensis Kloss 1917

Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. tjerapai Sody 1949

Distribution: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Introduced to: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Fiji Isls, Jamacia, Japan, Puerto Rico, Surinam, West Indies, USA (Hawaiian Isls), and many other tropical regions.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( India) as H. javanicus auropunctatus ; IUCN – Endangered as H. palustris , Lower Risk (lc) as H. javanicus .

Discussion: Bechthold (1939), Pocock (1941 a), and Lekagul and McNeeley (1977) included auropunctatus . Wells (1989) discussed the situation for the morphotypes in Indochina. Nellis (1989) considered auropunctatus as a separate species. Taylor and Matheson's (1999) skull morphometic study showed that the oriental subspecies can be distinguished from the northern and western subspecies based on a phenetic analysis of skull measurements. Ghose (1965) separated palustris from javanicus . Wenzel and Haltenorth (1972) and Corbet and Hill (1992) considered palustris , auropunctatus , and javanicus as conspecific, which is followed here.