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Dorcopsis veterum

Description

Dorcopsis veterum (Lesson, 1827). Voy. autour du Monde, sur.... “la Coquille," Zool., 1:164.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Vogelkop, Manokwari Div., Dorei (=Manokwari), Lobo Bay.

DISTRIBUTION: W., S., and E. New Guinea; Mysol and Salawatti Isis; Aru Isis.

COMMENT: D. muelleri is a junior synonym; see Kirsch and Calaby, 1977:21; Husson, 1955, Nova Guinea, 6: 299. George and Schuerer, 1978, Int. Zoo Yearb., 18: 152-156 rejected veterum as based on Dendrolagus, probably inustus, and employed muelleri.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301402012007003001 as D. muelleri.

Notes

Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Marsupialia, pp. 18-51 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353009

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Macropodidae
Genus
Dorcopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Marsupialia
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Lesson
Species
veterum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dorcopsis veterum (Lesson, 1827) sec. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl, 1982

References

  • Kirsch, J. A. W., and J. H. Calaby. 1977. The species of living marsupials: An annotated list. Pp. 9 - 26, in The biology of marsupials (B. Stonehouse and D. Gilmore, eds.). University Park Press, Baltimore, 486 pp.