Arctictis binturong • Binturong
- ️Thu Jun 21 1821
(Raffles, 1821)
Binturong
Taxonomy
| Subclass | : Theria |
| Infraclass | : Placentalia |
| Magnorder | : Boreoeutheria |
| Superorder | : Laurasiatheria |
| Order | : Carnivora |
| Suborder | : Feliformia |
| Infraorder | : Viverroidea |
| Family | : Viverridae |
| Subfamily | : Paradoxurinae |
| Genus | : Arctictis |
Species status
Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005
Authority citation
Raffles, S. 1821-06-21. Descriptive catalogue of a zoological collection, made on account of the Honourable East India 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 illustrative of the natural history of those countries. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13(1):239-274.
Original name as described
Viverra? Binturong
Other common names
Type material
Type kind
Type specimen URI
Type locality
[presented orally in 1820, often incorrectly ascribed as 1821], Malacca, Malaysia.
Biogeographic realm
Indomalaya
Country distribution
Nepal · India · Bhutan · Bangladesh · China · Myanmar · Thailand · Laos · Cambodia · Vietnam · Malaysia · Indonesia · Brunei? · Philippines
Subregion distribution
Distribution notes
Distribution references
Taxonomy notes citation
NA
IUCN Red List status
Vulnerable
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