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HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DASYUROMORPHIA
--> FAMILY Dasyuridae
--> SUBFAMILY Dasyurinae
--> TRIBE Dasyurini
--> GENUS Myoictis
SPECIES Myoictis wallacii
| Author: | Gray, 1858. | | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858: 112. | | Common Name: | Wallace’s Dasyure | | Type Locality: | Aru Isl. | | Distribution: | Southern New Guinea and Aru Isls (Indonesia). | | Status: | Unknown, but rare. | | Comments: | Usually considered a subspecies of M. melas, but separated as a species by Archer (1982:417), and molecular data suggest that they may have separated several million years ago (Krajewski et al., 1997a). |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
pilicauda (Peters and Doria, 1881)
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