Hemigalus derbyanus (Gray, 1837)

W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 279-348 : 342

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scientific name

Hemigalus derbyanus (Gray, 1837)
status

 

Hemigalus derbyanus (Gray, 1837) View in CoL . Mag. Nat. Hist. [Charlesworth's], 1:579.

TYPE LOCALITY: Not given. Fixed by Gray (1837) as "in Peninsulâ Malayanâ" .

DISTRIBUTION: Peninsular Burma, Indonesia (Sipora Isl, South Pagi Isl, Borneo, Sumatra), Malaysia, Thailand.

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: boiei Müller, 1838; derbianus Thomas, 1915; derbyi Temminck, 1841; incursor Thomas, 1915; invisus Gray, 1830; minor Miller, 1913 ; zebra Gray, 1837 .

COMMENTS: Gervais (1841) was the first to place in Hemigalus . Gray (1849) later considered Paradoxurus derbyanus a junior synonym of Viverra hardwicki Gray, 1830 , and placed it also in the genus Hemigalea after Jourdan (1837). However, V. hardwicki is a junior synonym of Prionodon linsang Raffles, 1821 .

Gervais, F. L. P. 1841. Mammiferes. Pp. 1 - 68, in Zoologie (J. F. T. Eydoux and L. F. A. Souleyet, eds.). in Voyage autour du Monde execute pendant les annees 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite commandee par M. Vaillant. Arthus Bertrand, Paris, 4: 1 - 334, pls. 1 - 12 (Mammiferes).

Gray, J. E. 1830 - 1834. Illustrations of Indian zoology; chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General Hardwicke. Treuttel, Wurtz, Treuttel, Jun. and Richter, London, [vol 1, 1830 - 1832; vol 2, 1833 - 1834].

Gray, J. E. 1837 [1838]. On a new species of paradoxure (Paradoxurus derbianus) with remarks on some Mammalia recently purchased by the British Museum, and characters of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1837: 67.

Gray, J. E. 1849 [1850]. Vertebrata, in The zoology of the voyage of H. M. S. Samarang; under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. B., F. R. A. S., F. G. S., during the years 1843 - 1846 (A. Adams, ed.). Reeve and Benham, London, 250 pp.

Jourdan, M. 1837. Memoire sur quelques mammiferes nouveaux. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires de Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, 5: 521 - 524.

Raffles, T. S. 1821. Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the honorable East Indian Company, in the island of Sumatra and its vicinity, under the direction of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, Lieutenant-Governor of Fort Marlborough, with additional notices illurstrative of the natural history. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 13: 239 - 274.

Temminck, C. J. 1841. Quatorzime monographie. Sur les genres taphien- - queue-en-fourreau- - queue-cache- - et queue-bivalve. Pp. 273 - 304, in Monographies de mammalogie ou description de quelques genres de mammifres sont les espces ont ete observees dans les differens musees de l'Europe. Bertrand. Leiden, 2: 1 - 392.

Thomas, O. 1915. List of mammals (exclusive of Ungulata) collected on the Upper Congo by Dr. Christy for the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 8, 16: 465 - 481.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Carnivora

Family

Viverridae

Genus

Hemigalus