Order Diprotodontia
Author
Colin P. Groves
text
1993
Smithsonian Institution Press
Washington and London
Editor
Don E. Wilson
Editor
DeeAnn M. Reeder
Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition)
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62
book chapter
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Dorcopsis
Schlegel and Müller, 1845
.
In
Temminck, Verh. Nat. Gesch.
Nederland
Overz. Bezitt., Zool., p. 130
(1845].
TYPE SPECIES:
Didelphis brunii
Quoy and Gaimard, 1830
(=
Macropus muelleri
Lesson, 1827
).
COMMENTS: Does not include
Dorcopsulus
(see Flannery, 1990:89-92). The name
Conoyces
Lesson, 1842
was used for this genus by
Troughton (1937)
, but Tate (1948«) showed that the type species of
Conoyces
is
Didelphis brunii
Gmelin, 1788
[=
Thylogale brunii
(Schreber, 1778)
]; see under
Thylogale
.