Owston's palm civet | |
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Owston's palm civets at Paradise Wildlife Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Viverridae |
Subfamily: | Hemigalinae |
Genus: | Chrotogale Thomas, 1912 |
Species: | C. owstoni
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Binomial name | |
Chrotogale owstoni (Thomas, 1912)
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Owston's palm civet range |
Owston's palm civet (Chrotogale owstoni) is a viverrid native to Vietnam, Laos and a very small portion of southern China, in three counties located in the Yunnan province: Hekou, Luchun, and Jinping, and has never been found west of the Mekong River. It is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List because of an ongoing population decline, estimated to be more than 50% over the last three generations, inferred from over-exploitation, habitat destruction and degradation.