Lutrogale perspicillata (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1826) . In Bory de Saint-Vincent, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. Paris, 9:519.

TYPE LOCALITY: " Sumatra " [Indonesia].

DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, and Borneo), Iraq, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; IUCN - Insufficiently known.

SYNONYMS: ellioti Anderson, 1878; macrodus Gray, 1865; simung Lesson, 1827; sindica Pocock, 1940; tarayensis Hodgson, 1839 .

COMMENTS: Pocock (1941a), Davis (1978), and van Zyll de Jong (1972) placed perspicillata in the monotypic Lutrogale, considered a subgenus by Pohle (1920); see comments under Lutra . Van Zyll de Jong's (1987) analysis placed as sister groups L. maculicollis and (L. lutra+L. sumatrana).