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--> ORDER CARNIVORA
--> SUBORDER FELIFORMIA
--> FAMILY Viverridae
--> SUBFAMILY Viverrinae
--> GENUS Viverra
SPECIES Viverra zibetha
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 44. | | Common Name: | Large Indian Civet | | Type Locality: | "Indiis", subsequently restricted by Thomas (1911a:137) to "Bengal". | | Distribution: | Burma, Cambodia, China (Anhui, Shaanxi, Zhejiang and Jiangsu), India, Indonesia, Laos, Western Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. | | Status: | CITES – Appendix III (India); IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). | | Comments: | See Walston and Veron (2001) for inclusion of V. tainguensis here. Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1933a) and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951). |
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