Sunda stink badger | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Mephitidae |
Genus: | Mydaus |
Species: | M. javanensis
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Binomial name | |
Mydaus javanensis | |
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Sunda stink badger range | |
Synonyms | |
Mydaus meliceps[3] |
The Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis), also called the Javan stink badger, teledu, Malay stink badger, Malay badger, Indonesian stink badger and Sunda skunk, is a mammal native to Indonesia and Malaysia. Despite the common name, stink badgers are not closely related to true badgers, and are, instead, Old World relatives of the skunks.[4] Coincidentally, its local name sigung in Sundanese[5] is a false cognate to skunk which is of Algonquian origin.