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‖ tangalung|ˈtæŋgəlʌŋ| Also tangga-. [Malay tanggālung.] The civet cat of Sumatra and Java, Viverra tangalunga; the Sumatran civet.
1820Sir S. Raffles in Trans. Linn. Soc. (1822) XIII. 251–2. 1824 T. Horsfield Zool. Researches Java, etc. s.v. Viverra Rasse, A very perfect specimen of the Viverra Zibetha, the Tanggalung of the Malays, forwarded from Sumatra by Sir Stamford Raffles... The Tanggalung is two feet six inches long; the head measures six inches and three-fourths, and the tail eleven inches. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 406/2. |