Small Indian civet

Small Indian civet
In Silchar, Assam, India
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Viverridae
Genus: Viverricula
Hodgson, 1838
Species:
V. indica
Binomial name
Viverricula indica
Subspecies
List
  • V. i. indica (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)
  • V. i. pallida (Gray, 1831)
  • V. i. bengalensis (Gray and Hardwicke, 1832)
  • V. i. deserti (Bonhote, 1898)
  • V. i. thai (Kloss, 1919)
  • V. i. muriavensis (Sody, 1931)
  • V. i. mayori (Pocock, 1933)
  • V. i. wellsi (Pocock, 1933)
  • V. i. baptistæ (Pocock, 1933)
Small Indian civet range
(green - extant,
pink - probably extant)

The small Indian civet (Viverricula indica) is a civet native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because of its widespread distribution, widespread habitat use and healthy populations living in agricultural and secondary landscapes of many range states.

This is the only species in genus Viverricula.

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