Cynogale bennettii Gray 1836

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Cynogale bennettii Gray 1836

Cynogale bennettii Gray 1836 , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836: 88.

Type Locality: " Sumatra " [ Indonesia].

Vernacular Names: Otter Civet.

Subspecies: :

Subspecies Cynogale bennettii subsp. bennettii Gray 1836

Subspecies Cynogale bennettii subsp. lowei Pocock 1933

Distribution: Brunei, Indonesia (Kalimantan, Sumatra), Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam.

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Endangered; Cynogale populations from Vietnam (C. b. lowei ) considered by IUCN to have high conservation priority status for viverrids ( Schreiber et al., 1989).

Discussion: Revised by Pocock (1933 d). Includes C. lowei , which is known only from the type, a poorly preserved juvenile skin from N Vietnam ( Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951). Schreiber et al. (1989) and Corbet and Hill (1992) recognized lowei as a separate species, however primary systematic studies are lacking. Synonyms allocated according to Pocock (1933 d).