Herpestes javanicus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 305

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scientific name	Herpestes javanicus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818)
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Herpestes javanicus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1818) View in CoL . Descrip, de L'Egypte, 2:138.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Java " .

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam. Introduced to Cuba, Dominican Republic, Fiji Isis, Hawaiian Isis, Jamacia, Japan, Puerto Rico, Surinam, West Indies, and many other tropical regions.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix III ( India) as H. auropunctatus .

SYNONYMS: auropunctata Hodgson, 1836 ; birmanicus Thomas, 1886; exilis Gervais, 1841; helvus Ryley, 1914; incertus Kloss, 1917; nepalensis Gray, 1837 ; pallipes Blyth, 1845; peninsulae Schwarz, 1910 ; perakensis Kloss, 1917; persicus Gray, 1864; rubrifrons Allen, 1909; rutilus Gray, 1861; siamensis Kloss, 1917.

COMMENTS: Bechthold (1939), Pocock (1941«), and Lekagul and McNeeley (1977) included Mangusta auropunctata . Wells (1989) discussed the situation for the morphotypes in Indochina. Reviewed by Nellis (1989, Mammalian Species, 342, as H. auropunctatus ).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Carnivora
Family	Herpestidae
Genus	Herpestes