Paguma larvata (C. E. H. Smith 1827)

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 550

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scientific name	Paguma larvata (C. E. H. Smith 1827)
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[Gulo] larvatus C. E. H. Smith 1827 , in: Griffith et al., Animal Kingdom, Vol. 2: 281.

Type Locality: Not given. Fixed by Temminck (1841) as " Nepal ". Gray (1864) discounted this because he knew of no specimens from Nepal, and reassigned the name to two specimens from Canton, China collected by J. R. Reeve ( Pocock, 1934 b) .

Vernacular Names: Masked Palm Civet.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. larvata C. E. H. Smith 1827

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. chichingensis Wang 1981

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. grayi Bennett 1835

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. hainana Thomas 1909

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. intrudens Wroughton 1910

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. janetta Thomas 1928

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. jourdanii J. E. Gray 1837

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. lanigera Hodgson 1836

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. leucomystax J. E. Gray 1837

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. neglecta Pocock 1934

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. nigriceps Pocock 1939

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. ogilbyi Fraser 1846

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. robusta Miller 1906

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. taivana Swinhoe 1862

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. tytlerii Tytler 1864

Subspecies Paguma larvata subsp. wroughtoni Schwarz 1913

Distribution: Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China (Hainan north to Hopei, Shanxi and the vicinity of Beijing), India (and S Andaman Isls), Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatra), Japan (introduced), Laos, Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak, West), Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix III ( India); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Pocock (1934 b) included Paradoxurus tytlerii . P. lanigera , the "imperfect, no doubt immature skin, without skull (B.M. no. 43.1.12.103)" provisionally recognized as separate by Pocock (1941 a:416) does not contain diagnostic features that would definitively align the specimen with Paguma ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951) . Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1934 b) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).