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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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