Sunda stink badger: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the Sunda stink badger lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Mydaus javanensis
Group	Weasels, otters, badgers & skunks
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Asia
Class	Mammal
Order	Carnivora
Family	Mephitidae

Where does the Sunda stink badger live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the Sunda stink badger in 1 country or territory across Asia.

Malaysia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the Sunda stink badger endangered?

The Sunda stink badger’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the Sunda stink badger?

The Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis) is a mammal in the order Carnivora and the family Mephitidae, genus Mydaus. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the Sunda stink badger

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. Coincidentally, its local name sigung in Sundanese is a false cognate to skunk which is of Algonquian origin.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Sunda stink badger (revision 1317974660), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q570548 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).