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<emphasis id="B96890021916FF85A3CCFAE8FBC1FAF9" bold="true" box="[978,1151,1326,1350]" italics="true" pageId="12" pageNumber="333">Myoictis melas</emphasis>
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.
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a. Mounted skin and front portion of skull of adult male. Melanistic specimen. Collected in 1828 by
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at Lobo,
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designation
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. Synonym:
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Schlegel, 1866
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RMNH 25749c (mounted skin and skull of adult male), RMNH 25749d (skin of adult female) collected in 1865 by H.A. Bernstein on Salawati Island,
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. I herein designate the more complete specimen RMNH 25749c as the
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, and RMNH 25749d as the
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Schlegel.
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listed four “cotypes” for
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and attributes all four to Bernstein; the extra two specimens were collected by D.S. Hoedt on Salawati Island in 1867 and are not registered as types.
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.
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590 (skin and partial skull of adult male) collected in 1874 by A.A. Bruijn, at Andai, Arfak Mountains,
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listed
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3904 as a cotype of
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; however, as noted by
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,
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3904 was
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not collected until after the description of
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and could not have been used for the description.
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.
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ZM 44226. Skin and skull of adult male collected in 1931 by G. Stein at Kunupi, Weyland Range,
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.
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ZM 20355. Skin and skull of adult, sex unknown, collected in 1913 by
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at Meanderberg,
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<emphasis id="B96890021917FF84A067FE08FEBBFE59" bold="true" box="[121,261,462,486]" pageId="13" pageNumber="334">Distribution</emphasis>
. Widely distributed in the north of mainland New
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and on Salawati, Waigeo and Japen Islands. Altitude records range from
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<emphasis id="B96890021917FF84A067FDF3FF56FDF2" bold="true" box="[121,232,565,589]" pageId="13" pageNumber="334">Diagnosis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B96890021917FF84A0E4FDF0FE1EFDF2" box="[250,416,566,589]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="334">Myoictis melas</emphasis>
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differs from other species of
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in having a well haired, tapering tail with a dorsal crest.
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. Coat colour is variable. A small number of specimens are melanistic. The majority are brightly coloured with either whitish or reddish hairs between the black dorsal stripes, and they have bright reddish patches on the nape and behind the ears. Body dimensions can be found in
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. The first interdigital and thenar footpads may be either fused or not fused. The posterior palatal foramina are small and P
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is absent. Females have six nipples.
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