Paradoxurinae

Paradoxurinae is a subfamily of the feliform viverrids that was denominated and first described by John Edward Gray in 1864.^[1] Pocock subordinated the genera Paradoxurus, Paguma and Arctictis to this subfamily.^[2][3]

Paradoxurinae
Binturong (Arctictis binturong)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Viverridae
Subfamily:	Paradoxurinae Gray, 1864
Genera
see Classification

Classification

Living species

Genus	Species	IUCN Red List status and distribution
Paradoxurus Cuvier, 1822[4]	Asian palm civet (P. hermaphroditus) (Pallas, 1777)[5]	LC[6]
	Golden palm civet (P. zeylonensis) (Pallas, 1778)[7]	VU[8]
	Brown palm civet (P. jerdoni) Blanford, 1885[9]	LC[10]
Arctictis Temminck, 1824[11]	Binturong (A. binturong) (Raffles, 1822)[12]	VU[13]
Paguma Gray, 1831[14]	Masked palm civet (P. larvata) (Smith, 1827)[15]	LC[16]
Arctogalidia Merriam, 1897[17]	Small-toothed palm civet (A. trivirgata) (Gray, 1832)[18]	LC[19]

Phylogenetic tree

The phylogenetic relationships of Paradoxurinae are shown in the following cladogram:^[20][21]

Paradoxurinae

Paradoxurus Paradoxurus zeylonensis (Golden palm civet) Paradoxurus montanus (Sri Lankan brown palm civet) Paradoxurus stenocephalus (Golden dry-zone palm civet) Paradoxurus aureus (Golden wet-zone palm civet) Paradoxurus jerdoni (Jerdon's palm civet) Paradoxurus hermaphroditus (Asian palm civet) Arctogalidia Arctogalidia trivirgata (Small-toothed palm civet) Paguma Paguma larvata (Masked palm civet) Arctictis Arctictis binturong (Binturong)

Extinct genera

• Kichechia Savage, 1965^[22][23]
• Tugenictis Morales & Pickford, 2005^[24][25]
• Kanuites Dehghani & Werdelin, 2008^[26][25]
• Siamictis Grohé et al., 2020^[27]