[a. Javanese linsang, wlinsang, wrongly rendered ‘otter’ in Dicts.] A kind of civet cat, Linsang (or Prionodon) gracilis, striped black and white, common in Borneo and Java. A related African species is the Guinea Linsang, Poiana richardsoni.
1885. Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888), V. 438. The Linsang (Prionodon gracilis) of the Malayan regions … is white, with broad, black cross bands. It occurs in Borneo, Java, and Singapore…. The Guinea Linsang … ranges from Sierra Leone to Fernando Po.
1893. Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., I. 456. The Asiatic linsangs … constitute the genus Linsang. The one African linsang … has been made the type of a separate genus—Poiana.
