Phalanger orientalis (Pallas, 1766)

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 45-62 : 46

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Phalanger orientalis (Pallas, 1766) View in CoL . Mise. Zool., p. 61.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Amboina (= Ambon) Isl, Maluku .

DISTRIBUTION: Timor and Ceram Isis ( Indonesia) to New Guinea, and adjacent small islands; Bismarck Arch.; Solomon Isis; and E Cape York (Queensland, Australia).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: alba, albidus, ambonensis, breviceps , brevinasus, ducatoris, fusca , intercastellanus , kiriwinae, matsika , meeki, microdon , mimicus , minor , molucca, moluccensis , peninsulae, rufa, vulpecula .

COMMENTS: Formerly included interpositus and lullulae (see G. G. George, 1979). Flannery et al. (1987) suggested that the southern races may prove to be specifically, even generically distinct, as Strigocuscus mimicus , but Flannery (1990) did not adopt this course.