Dendrolagus dorianus stellarum Flannery & Seri, 1990b

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 332-333

Dendrolagus dorianus stellarum Flannery & Seri, 1990b

Rec. Aust. Mus. 42(2): 180, figs 4–6, table 5. (6 July 1990).

Common name. Seri’s Tree-kangaroo.

Current name. Dendrolagus stellarum Flannery & Seri, 1990b . Recognized as a species by Groves (2005d) and Helgen (2007) but treated as a subspecies of D. dorianus by Eldridge & Coulson (2015), who highlight the need for further analysis of populations currently assigned to D. dorianus .

Holotype. M.17789 by original designation. Adult male, [Field no. FB51], skull, study skin, frozen tissue; collected by T. Flannery and L. Seri on 6 April 1987; registered 15 July 1987 .

Condition. Cranium missing distal part of right paroccipital process, otherwise complete. Both dentaries complete. Study skin in good condition.

Type locality. Western end of Dokfuma basin [in forest 5 km west of Dokfuma], alt. 3,000 m, Star Mountains , Western Province, Papua New Guinea (5°01'S 141°07'E).

Paratypes. (3, by original designation). M. 17790 , adult female, skull, study skin, collected on 2 April 1987 by T. Flannery and L. Seri, north side of Dokfuma Basin (alt. 3,160 m), Star Mountains , Western Province, Papua New Guinea (5°01'S 141°08'E). M. 19463 , subadult male (young of AM M 17790 ), body in alc., frozen tissue, data as for M.17790. M. 16699 , subadult male, skull, study skin, frozen tissue in SAM, collected on 1 April 1986 by T. Flannery, upper Sol River Basin (alt. 2,800 m), Telefomin district , West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea .

Comments. Four specimens in the type series. Bowyer et al. (2003) suggest that stellarum could be a composite of several taxa, based on divergent cytochrome b sequences between two localities, which included tissue samples from the paratype M.16699.