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--> ORDER DIPROTODONTIA
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--> SUPERFAMILY Phalangeroidea
--> FAMILY Phalangeridae
--> SUBFAMILY Phalangerinae
--> TRIBE Phalangerini
--> GENUS Spilocuscus
SPECIES Spilocuscus rufoniger
Author: | Zimara, 1937. | Citation: | Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 74: 35. | Common Name: | Black-spotted Cuscus | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Sattelberg. | Distribution: | N New Guinea, above 1200 m. | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | Comments: | Includes atrimaculatus (see G. G. George, 1979:98), but also see Feiler (1978a), who placed it in maculatus. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
atrimaculatus (Tate, 1945)
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