Phalanger alexandrae Flannery & Boeadi, 1995

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Phalanger alexandrae Flannery & Boeadi, 1995

Aust. Mammal. 18(1): 42, figs 2d, 3d, table 1. (21 December 1995).

Common name. Gebe Cuscus .

Current name. Phalanger alexandrae Flannery & Boeadi, 1995 ; following Groves (2005d).

Holotype. M.27005 by original designation. Male adult, [Field no. FQ658], skull, study skin, collected on 2 December 1991 by T. F. Flannery and Boeadi; registered 29 June 1992. Shot using bow and arrow by an Irian hunter.

Condition. Complete cranium and dentaries; soft palate retained on skull. Study skin complete in good condition; hole in skin on left side of throat, bald patch on the dorsal surface of the neck.

Type locality. Kebun (“garden”), near airport 0°05'S 129°25'E, Gebe Island , North Moluccas, North Maluku Province, Indonesia .

Paratypes. (3, by original designation): all collected by T. F. Flannery and Boeadi: M.25417 , juvenile female, body in alc., Sawmill Village , Gebe Island (0°05'S 129°25'E), North Moluccas, Indonesia, collected 3 December 1991 . M.27006 , subadult male, skull, study skin, same details as holotype. M.27008 , subadult male, skull, study skin, near Aneka Tambang HQ, Gebe Is, Moluccas (0°05'S 129°25'E), Indonesia, collected 3 December 1991 .

Comments. Type series of four specimens. Photographs of the holotype skull are given in the original account but also by Flannery (1995c), as Phalanger sp.