Spilocuscus maculatus
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Description
Spilocuscus maculatus (E. Geoffroy 1803)
[Phalangista] maculata E. Geoffroy 1803, Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris: 149.
Type Locality: Indonesia, Prov. of Papua (= Irian Jaya), Vogelkop, Manokwari Div., Manokwari.
Vernacular Names: Common Spotted Cuscus.
Subspecies::
Subspecies Spilocuscus maculatus subsp. maculatus E. Geoffroy 1803
Subspecies Spilocuscus maculatus subsp. chrysorrhous Temminck 1824
Subspecies Spilocuscus maculatus subsp. goldiei Ramsay 1876
Subspecies Spilocuscus maculatus subsp. nudicaudatus Gould 1850
Distribution: New Guinea and adjacent small islands; Aru and Kei Isls, Seram, Ambon and Selayar Isls (Indonesia); Cape York Peninsula (Queensland, Australia). On New Guinea, found mainly above 1200 m.
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc); CITES – Appendix II; but "common" in New Guinea (Flannery, 1990).
Discussion: Feiler (1978 a) included atrimaculatus in this species, but G. G. George (1979:98) placed it in rufoniger. Usually includes papuensis and kraemeri, but these were separated by Flannery (1994 a).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.7316519 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/EFC9935787F7AC0A5B50238F4F73B0AD (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/8FF56F1F036BB969FAABE7C21C6FD0EE (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/231549102 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- E. Geoffroy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Diprotodontia
- Family
- Phalangeridae
- Genus
- Spilocuscus
- Species
- maculatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spilocuscus maculatus (Geoffroy, 1803) sec. Wilson & Reeder, 2005
References
- Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, E. 1803. Catalogue des mammiferes du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 272 pp.
- Feiler, A. 1978 a. Ueber artliche Abgrenzung und innerartliche Ausformung bei Phalanger maculatus. Zoologische Abhandlungen Staatliches Museum fur Tierkunde in Dresden, 35: 1 - 30.
- Flannery, T. F. 1994 a. Possums of the world: A monograph of the Phalangeroidea. Geo productions, Sydney, 240 pp.