Ailurus fulgens F. Cuvier, 1825

James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA: Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections, pp. 244-289 : 252

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7205334
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scientific name	Ailurus fulgens F. Cuvier, 1825
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Ailurus fulgens F. Cuvier, 1825 . Hist. Nat. Mamm., 5(50):3.

TYPE LOCALITY: India, S. E. Himalayas .

DISTRIBUTION: Yunnan and Szechwan ( China); N. Burma; Sikkim; Nepal.

COMMENT: Although this species is usually included in the Procyonidae because of its ringed tail, facial markings, and superficial resemblance of teeth and skull to Procyon , this species has no shared derived morphological characters that would place it here (SK). Thenius, 1979, Z. Saugetierk., 44:386-305, and Gromov and Baranova, 1981:255, placed it in the monotypic subfamily Ailurinae.

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301412003001001001.