The southern palm civet (Paradoxurus musanga) is a viverrid native to Southeast Asia.
Taxonomy The type specimen of Viverra musanga was collected in Sumatra and described by Raffles in 1821.
It was formerly considered conspecific with the northern palm civet (P. hermaphroditus). Morphological and molecular studies in 2015 recognized populations in the Indochinese and Sundaic regions as a distinct species.
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