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
Spilocuscus maculatus
(E. Geoffroy 1803)
[Phalangista] maculata
E.
Geoffroy 1803
,
Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris: 149
.
Type Locality:
Indonesia
, Prov. of
Papua
(=
Irian Jaya
), Vogelkop, Manokwari Div., Manokwari.
Vernacular Names:
Common Spotted Cuscus
.
Subspecies:
:
Subspecies
Spilocuscus maculatus
subsp.
maculatus
E.
Geoffroy 1803
Subspecies
Spilocuscus maculatus
subsp.
chrysorrhous
Temminck 1824
Subspecies
Spilocuscus maculatus
subsp.
goldiei
Ramsay 1876
Subspecies
Spilocuscus maculatus
subsp.
nudicaudatus
Gould 1850
Distribution:
New
Guinea
and adjacent small islands; Aru and Kei Isls, Seram,
Ambon
and Selayar Isls (
Indonesia
); Cape York Peninsula (
Queensland
,
Australia
). On New
Guinea
, found mainly above
1200 m
.
Conservation:
IUCN
– Lower Risk (lc);
CITES
– Appendix II; but "common" in New
Guinea
(Flannery, 1990).
Discussion:
Feiler (1978
a
)
included
atrimaculatus
in this species, but G. G. George (1979:98) placed it in
rufoniger
. Usually includes
papuensis
and
kraemeri
, but these were separated by
Flannery (1994
a
)
.