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Mustela strigidorsa Gray, 1855. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1853:191 [1855]. TYPE LOCALITY: Not given. Gray (1853) based the type description on a manuscript given to him by Hodgson. Horsfield (1855) later fixed the type locality as, "the Sikim Hills of Tarai." [India, Sikkim]. DISTRIBUTION: Nepal east through Burma, Yunnan (China) and Thailand to Laos. COMMENTS: Youngman (1982) suggested that strigidorsa belonged in subgenus Lutreola.

Published as part of W. Christopher Wozencraft, 1993, Order Carnivora, pp. 279-348 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 324, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7359191