Also tangga-. [Malay tanggālung.] The civet cat of Sumatra and Java, Viverra tangalunga; the Sumatran civet.
1820. Sir 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.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 406/2.
