Order Diprotodontia
Author
Wilson, Don E.
Author
Reeder, DeeAnn
text
2005
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1
43
70
book chapter
0-8018-8221-4
10.5281/zenodo.7316519
Pseudochirulus larvatus
(Förster and Rothschild 1911)
[Pseudochirulus] larvatus
(Förster and Rothschild 1911)
,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 7: 337
.
Type Locality:
Papua New Guinea
, Huon Peninsula, Rawlinson Mtns.
Vernacular Names:
Masked Ringtail
.
Synonyms:
Pseudochirulus barbatus
Matschie 1915
;
Pseudochirulus capistratus
Matschie 1915
.
Distribution:
NE New
Guinea
(Huon Peninsula and eastern part of Central Cordillera).
Conservation:
Common.
Discussion:
Diagnostically distinct from SE
forbesi
, and separated by a sharp boundary between Wau and the Kratke Mtns (
Flannery, 1994
a
;
Musser and Sommer, 1992
), which strongly suggests that
larvatus
is specifically distinct.