Spilocuscus maculatus Desmarest, 1818

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 45-62 : 47

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scientific name	Spilocuscus maculatus Desmarest, 1818
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Spilocuscus maculatus Desmarest, 1818 View in CoL . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 25:472.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Vogelkop, Manokwari Div., Manokwari .

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea and adjacent small islands; Aru and Kei Isis, Ceram, Amboina and Selayar Isis ( Indonesia); Cape York Peninsula (Queensland, Australia).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; but "common" in New Guinea (Flannery, 1990).

SYNONYMS: brevicaudatus , chrysorrhous, goldiei, kraemeri ?, nudicaudatus, ochropus, quoy, variegata.

COMMENTS: Commonly cited from "E. Geoffroy, 1803. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris., p. 149"; but see comments in Appendix I. Feiler (1978a) included atrimaculatus in this species, but G. G. George (1979:98) placed it in rufoniger .