Cuon alpinus (Pallas, 1811) . Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1:34.

TYPE LOCALITY: "Udskoi Ostrog"; reported in Honacki et al. (1982) as " U.S. S. R., Amurskaya Obi., Udskii-Ostrog."

DISTRIBUTION: Java; Sumatra; Malaysia; montane forest areas of the Indian peninsula and N Pakistan through Tibet and Xinjiang (Tian Shan and Altai—extinct); Indochina and China to Korea and Ussuri region (Russia), and mountains of S Siberia and N Mongolia.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; U.S. ESA - Endangered; IUCN - Vulnerable.

SYNONYMS: clamitans Heude, 1892; dukhunensis Sykes, 1831; fumosus Pocock, 1936; grayiformes Hodgson, 1863; hesperius Afanasiev and Zolotarev, 1935; infuscus Pocock, 1936; javanicus Desmarest, 1820; laniger Pocock, 1936; lepturus Heude, 1892; primaevus Hodgson, 1833; rutilans Blanford, 1839; sumatrensis Hardwicke, 1822.

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Cohen (1978, Mammalian Species, 100).