Herpestes javanicus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818 Herpestes javanicus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818, Descrip. de L'Egypte, Vol. 2: 138. Type Locality: " Java ". Vernacular Names: Small Asian Mongoose. Subspecies:: Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. javanicus E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1818 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. auropunctatus Hodgson 1836 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. exilis Gervais 1841 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. orientalis Sody 1936 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. pallipes Blyth 1845 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. palustris Ghose 1965 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. peninsulae Schwarz 1910 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. perakensis Kloss 1917 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. rafflesii Anderson 1875 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. rubrifrons J. A. Allen 1909 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. siamensis Kloss 1917 Subspecies Herpestes javanicus subsp. tjerapai Sody 1949 Distribution: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Introduced to: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Fiji Isls, Jamacia, Japan, Puerto Rico, Surinam, West Indies, USA (Hawaiian Isls), and many other tropical regions. Conservation: CITES – Appendix III (India) as H. javanicus auropunctatus; IUCN – Endangered as H. palustris, Lower Risk (lc) as H. javanicus. Discussion: Bechthold (1939), Pocock (1941 a), and Lekagul and McNeeley (1977) included auropunctatus. Wells (1989) discussed the situation for the morphotypes in Indochina. Nellis (1989) considered auropunctatus as a separate species. Taylor and Matheson's (1999) skull morphometic study showed that the oriental subspecies can be distinguished from the northern and western subspecies based on a phenetic analysis of skull measurements. Ghose (1965) separated palustris from javanicus. Wenzel and Haltenorth (1972) and Corbet and Hill (1992) considered palustris, auropunctatus, and javanicus as conspecific, which is followed here.

Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Carnivora, pp. 532-628 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 568, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519