 Recently this species was split into 3 separate endemic species as "Paradoxurus montanus", "P. aureus", and "P. stenocephalus".In Bangladesh and Bengali-speaking areas of India, civets are known as "khatash" () for the smaller species and "bagdash" () for the larger ones and is now extremely rare in Bangladesh (in the Khulna area of the country, the animal is also known as "shairel").In Assamese this animal is known as "zohamola" (Assamese