Mydaus F. G. Cuvier, 1821

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 315

Mydaus F. G. Cuvier, 1821 . In E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, pt. 2, 3(27), "Telagon", 2 pp.

TYPE SPECIES: Mydaus meliceps F. G. Cuvier, 1821 (= Mephitis javanensis Desmarest, 1820 ).

SYNONYMS: Suillotaxus Lawrence, 1939 .

COMMENTS: Lawrence (1939) believed that differences in dentition and pelage warranted separation of these taxa into separate, monotypic genera (i.e., Suillotaxus marchei , Mydaus javanensis ). These differences parallel those found within the genus Melogale ( Long and Killingley, 1983). This genus is provisionally placed in Melinae (see comments therein), its position may be better considered as incertae sedis.