Jerdon's Palm Civet

Jerdon's Palm Civet

Taxobox
name = Jerdon's Palm CivetMSW3 Wozencraft | pages = 551]
status = VU
status_system = iucn2.3
status_ref = IUCN2006 | assessors = CBSG CAMP Workshop, India | year = 2000 | title = Paradoxurus jerdoni| id = 16104 | downloaded = 2007-02-24]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Viverridae
genus = "Paradoxurus"
species = "P. jerdoni"
binomial = "Paradoxurus jerdoni"
binomial_authority = Blanford, 1885

Jerdon's Palm Civet ("Paradoxurus jerdoni"), also called the Brown Palm Civet, is a civet endemic to Western Ghats, India.

It is distributed in the Palni, Nilgiri and Anamalai hills, Travancore and Coorg (Pocock 1939, Corbet & Hill 1992, Mudappa 1998) particularly at an altitude ranging between 500 and 1300 m.

There are two subspecies, the nominate "P. j. jerdoni", and "P. j. caniscus".

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