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SPECIES Paradoxurus hermaphroditus

Author:Pallas, 1777.
Citation:In Schreber, Die Säugethiere, 3(25): 426 [1777].
Common Name:Asian Palm Civet
Type Locality:Uncertain. "Das Vaterland des beschreibenen Thieres ist die Barbarey". Listed as "India?" by Corbet and Hill (1992).
Distribution:Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippine Isls, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; scattered records in Sulawesi, Moluccas, and Aru Isls, probably resulting from introductions.
Status:CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Vulnerable as P. h. lignicolor, otherwise Lower Risk (lc).
Comments:Two primary systematic studies – Chasen and Kloss (1927) and Pocock (1934a) – considered lignicolor Miller, 1903 (an insular population) as conspecific. However, Pocock did not directly study Miller’s (1903b) type specimen. Corbet and Hill’s (1992) review separated lignicolor from other hermaphroditus and perhaps it should best be listed as incertae sedis. They point out the pelage differences (a paler tail, and a more uniform body color). Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1933c, 1934a) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951).
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Offspring:

SUBSPECIES hermaphroditus

SUBSPECIES balicus

SUBSPECIES bondar

SUBSPECIES canescens

SUBSPECIES canus

SUBSPECIES cochinensis

SUBSPECIES dongfangensis

SUBSPECIES enganus

SUBSPECIES exitus

SUBSPECIES javanica

SUBSPECIES kangeanus

SUBSPECIES laotum

SUBSPECIES lignicolor

SUBSPECIES milleri

SUBSPECIES minor

SUBSPECIES musanga

SUBSPECIES nictitans

SUBSPECIES pallasii

SUBSPECIES pallens

SUBSPECIES parvus

SUBSPECIES philippinensis

SUBSPECIES pugnax

SUBSPECIES pulcher

SUBSPECIES sacer

SUBSPECIES scindiae

SUBSPECIES senex

SUBSPECIES setosus

SUBSPECIES simplex

SUBSPECIES sumbanus

SUBSPECIES vellerosus

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