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The dental remains of a large badger collected in 2020 from the Pleistocene deposits of the Lang Trang karstic cave in northern Vietnam are described. The molars М1 and М1 exhibit the features that are characteristic of Arctonyx collaris Cuvier, 1825. At the same time, the length of M1 of the Lang Trang form exceeds that of modern greater hog badgers. Based on the size and structure of the teeth, it can be assigned to the subspecies A. c. rostratus Matthew et Granger, 1923 known from the Pleistocene of China and Southeast Asia.
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The author thanks E.N. Maschenko, N.V. Serdyuk, A.A. Lozovsky (PIN), and Le Xuan Dac (Institute of Tropical Ecology of the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center, Hanoi, Vietnam) for participation in collecting of materials in the Lang Trang cave in March 2020, A.N. Kuznetsov and S.P. Kuznetsova (Tropical Center) for their assistance in organizing the expedition, A.M. Kuznetsov and S.V. Bagirov (PIN) for their help in preparing photographs.
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The study was carried out as part of the work of the Joint Russian–Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center for 2020–2022 (project “The Composition of the Fauna of Primates (Cercopithecidae, Pongidae) and Rodents (Rodentia) of the Pleistocene and Holocene of Vietnam as an Indicator of Environmental Change”).
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Lopatin, A.V. Greater Hog Badger Arctonyx collaris (Mustelidae, Carnivora) from the Pleistocene of Vietnam (Lang Trang Cave). Dokl Biol Sci 495, 280–282 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496620060058
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