Chrotogale owstoni

O. Thomas, 1912

Owston's Palm Civet

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Placentalia
Magnorder : Boreoeutheria
Superorder : Laurasiatheria
Order : Carnivora
Suborder : Feliformia
Infraorder : Viverroidea
Family : Viverridae
Subfamily : Hemigalinae
Genus : Chrotogale

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1912-03-19. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited the skin and skull of a Viverrine Carnivore from Tonkin. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 106:17-18.

Authority publication link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31855301

Original name as described

Chrotogale owstoni

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1912.4.21.3

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/864e5e36-acfa-414c-9abf-c765602415ff

Type locality

Yen Bay on the Songhoi River, Vietnam.

Biogeographic realm

Indomalaya

Country distribution

China · Vietnam · Laos · Cambodia?

IUCN Red List status

Endangered

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006092

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Chrotogale owstoni

O. Thomas, 1912

Family

Viverridae

Root name

owstoni

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1912.4.21.3

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/864e5e36-acfa-414c-9abf-c765602415ff

Authority page

17

Authority page URI

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31855301

Authority publication

Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:101) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:265) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Wozencraft (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8533)
  4. Smith & Xie (2008:406) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)
  5. Wilson & Mittermeier (2009:198) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67177)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #4806) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #4806) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  8. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1006092) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  9. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/4806/45196929) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

Chrotogale owstoni owstoni

A. T. Smith & Xie Yan, 2008

Family

Viverridae

Root name

owstoni

Validity status

synonym

Nomenclatural status

name_combination

Authority page

406

Authority publication

Princeton

Name usages

Smith & Xie (2008:406) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/64149)

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