Arctogalidia Merriam, 1897

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 342

Arctogalidia Merriam, 1897 . Science, 5:302.

TYPE SPECIES: Paradoxurus trivirgatus Gray, 1832 , by monotypy through the replaced name Arctogale Gray, 1865 ( Melville and Smith, 1987).

SYNONYMS: Arctogale Gray, 1865 .

COMMENTS: Gray's (1864 [1865]) generic name stood until Merriam (1897) pointed out that the name Arctogale was preoccupied (= Arctogale erminea Kaup, 1829 ). First placed in the Paradoxurinae by Gray (1869); later separated into the monotypic Arctogalidinae by Pocock (1933d), and followed by Gregory and Hellman (1939); however, Simpson (1945), and Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951) retained it in Paradoxurinae .