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SPECIES Pseudocheirus peregrinus

Author:Boddaert, 1785.
Citation:Elench. Anim.: 78.
Common Name:Common Ringtail
Type Locality:Australia, Queensland, Endeavour River.
Distribution:Australia: Cape York Peninsula (Queensland) to SE South Australia and SW Western Australia, Tasmania, islands of the Bass Straits.
Status:IUCN – Vulnerable as P. occidentalis, Lower Risk (lc) as P. peregrinus. Common.
Comments:Probably a species complex rather than a single species (see Flannery, 1994a).
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Offspring:

SUBSPECIES peregrinus

SUBSPECIES occidentalis

SUBSPECIES pulcher

SUBSPECIES convolutor

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