68 Small Carnivore Conservation, Vol. 51: 68–70, December 2014 The genus Melogale includes four or five species – Large-toothed Ferret Badger M. personata, Small-toothed Ferret Badger M. moschata, Javan Ferret Badger M. orientalis, Bornean Ferret Badger M. everetti (Wozencraft 2005) and the enigmatic form M. cucphuongensis (Nadler et al. 2011). Large-toothed Ferret Badger and Small-toothed Ferret Badger are widely distrib- uted in continental South and South-east Asia but camera-trap records or field observations are not currently identifiable to species. The only reliable way to distinguish the species visu- ally is by cranial and dental characters. Both species are re- corded from North-east India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and southern China (IUCN 2014). Each species’s distribution in this region of sympatry is poorly known. In Vietnam, most M. moschata records are from the north and centre (Fig. 1), whereas M. personata has been found in the centre and south (Rozhnov 1994a, 1994b, Kuznetsov 2006, Roberton 2007, Dang et al. 2008). Small-toothed Ferret Badger’s southern limit in Indo- china is poorly known. Long & Minh (2006: 41) reported one from Dong Giang district, Quang Nam province (15°47′55.8″N, 107°40′11.6″E), stating “the animal … is housed in the Viet- nam National University Museum in Hanoi (specimen number 1057)”. We could not find this specimen in the Museum, so could not check its identification. Kuznetsov (2006) listed M. moschata for Buon Luoi (14°20′N, 108°36′E) in An Khe dis- trict, Gia Lai province, but without specimen confirmation. Rozhnov (1994a, 1994b) mentioned two M. personata skulls for Buon Luoi. Two ferret badgers from An Khe district in the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR) collec- tion, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, are M. personata (A. V. Abramov et al. unpubl. data). According to Dang et al. (2008), the southernmost record of M. moschata for Vietnam is from Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park (NP) in Quang Binh province. This is probably the southernmost specimen-validated locality for M. moschata in the world: a skull (M.1043) from Minh Hoa district, Quang Binh province The southernmost record of Small-toothed Ferret Badger Melogale moschata – further evidence of syntopy by two ferret badger species A. V. ABRAMOV 1,3 and V. V. ROZHNOV 2,3 Abstract A Small-toothed Ferret Badger Melogale moschata specimen collected from a hunter’s snare in Chu Yang Sin National Park, Dak Lak province, near 12°23′N at 1,380 m asl, on 11 April 2012 is the first confirmed record of the species from southern Vietnam and the southernmost in the world. Large-toothed Ferret Badger M. personata was found in the same part of the park only 1.5 km away, at 1,000 m asl. Together, these records testify to the syntopy of the two species. Keywords: altitude, Chu Yang Sin National Park, habitat, Large-toothed Ferret Badger, Melogale personata, Mustelidae, Vietnam Ghi nhận cực nam của Chồn bạc má bắc Melogale moschata – thêm chứng cứ về sự đồng phân bố của hai loài chồn bạc má. Tóm tắt Một tiêu bản Chồn bạc má bắc Melogale moschata thu được từ bẫy thợ sn tại Vườn Quốc gia Chư Yang Sin, tỉnh k Lk, gần v độ 12°23′N tại đô cao 1.380 m so với mặt biển vào ngày 11/04/2012 là ghi nhận chắc chắn đầu tiên của loài này tại miền nam Việt Nam và là ghi nhận ở điểm xa nhất phía nam trong vùng phân bố toàn cầu của loài. Chồn bạc má nam M. personata cng được ghi nhận tại vườn cách điểm ghi nhận Chồn bạc má bắc chỉ 1,5 km tại độ cao 1.000m. Các ghi nhận đồng thời này chứng minh sự giao thoa về phân bố của hai loài. Fig. 1. Distribuion of Small-toothed Ferret Badger Melogale moschata in Vietnam. Circles are localiies from Dang et al. (2008), the square is the new inding in Chu Yang Sin Naional Park.