Paradoxurus F. G. Cuvier, 1821 . In E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. G. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mammifères, pt. 2, 3(24):15 "Martre des Palmiers" and pl. 186.
TYPE SPECIES: Paradoxurus typus F. G. Cuvier, 1821 (= Viverra hermaphrodita Pallas, 1777), by indication (Melville and Smith, 1987).
COMMENTS: Revised by Pocock (1933c).