Southern palm civet

The southern palm civet, Paradoxurus musanga (spelled musangus in some checklists), is a viverrid native to Southeast Asia. The type specimen, first named Viverra musanga, was collected in Sumatra and described by Raffles in 1821. For a long time it was regarded as the same species as the northern palm civet, Paradoxurus hermaphroditus, which is now usually called the Asian palm civet. Morphological and molecular studies published in 2015 recognized the populations of the Indochinese and Sundaic regions as a distinct species, so the animal is a recent split and many databases still file it under its relative.