Mustela strigidorsa Gray 1853

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 532-628 : 618

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scientific name	Mustela strigidorsa Gray 1853
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Mustela strigidorsa Gray 1853 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853: 191.

Type Locality: Not given. Gray (1853) based the type description on a manuscript given to him by Hodgson. Horsfield (1855) later fixed the type locality as "the Sikim Hills of Tarai." [ India, Sikkim].

Vernacular Names: Back-striped Weasel.

Distribution: Burma, China (Yunnan, Guizhou), India, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam.

Conservation: IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Youngman (1982) suggested that strigidorsa belonged in subgenus Lutreola . Abramov (1999) placed it in subgenus Cryptomustela .