Melogale I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 314

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scientific name	Melogale I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831
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Melogale I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831 View in CoL . In Bélanger (ed.), Voy. Indes Orient., 3(Zoologie):129, pl. 5.[issued 13 March 1831].

TYPE SPECIES: Melogale personata I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1831 View in CoL .

SYNONYMS: Helictis Gray, 1831 ; Nesictis Thomas, 1922 .

COMMENTS: There is uncertainty as to the the total number of species in this genus. Most recent authors tend to consider everetii and/ or orientalis as conspecific with personata ; however, Pocock (1941a), Everts (1968), Long (1978, 1981), and Long and Killingley (1983) supported the recognition of these populations as distinct. As Long and Killingley pointed out, there is no published information to refute Pocock's (1941a) revision.