The taxonomy of the endemic golden palm civet of Sri Lanka Author Groves, Colin P. Author Rajapaksha, Channa Author Manemandra-Arachchi, Kelum text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2009 2009-01-31 155 1 238 251 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00451.x journal article 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00451.x 0024-4082 5444863 PARADOXURUS MONTANUS KELAART, 1852 SRI LANKAN BROWN PALM CIVET Type : BM 52.5 .9.17, subadult male skin and skull, Newara Eliya , cloud-forest zone of Central Highlands , Sri Lanka . Diagnosis: Dark, slightly greyish-toned wood-brown, with a yellowish-white tail tip. Underside a paler version of upper side. Skull smaller, narrow with a narrow, pointed muzzle, a lower, flatter braincase, and occipital crest narrows backwards. Coronoid process not strongly curved backwards. Distribution: Dry zone of Sri Lanka , on present evidence extending to high altitudes in the Knuckles Range, and cloud forest in the Central Highlands. Skulls from the wet zone are somewhat narrower, but with a wider interpterygoid fossa, and may be different; further material – especially of adult specimens – from the cloud forest may show that these populations are also different from those from the dry zone, in which case the cloud-forest animals would retain the name montanus , and lower-altitude taxa would require one or more new names. CR has live-trapped 12 individuals of this species, as follows. Knuckles Range: Memure, (1/1), Walpolamulla (1/0), Elukumbura (1/1). Monaragala: Thabanna (4/1). Bibila: Lunugala (0/1). Ratnapura: Sirapagama (0/1).