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GENUS Dorcopsis

Author:Schlegel and Müller, 1845.
Citation:In Temminck, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Nederland Overz. Bezitt., Zool.: 130[1845].
Type Species:Didelphis brunii Quoy and Gaimard, 1830 (= Macropus muelleri Lesson, 1827).
Comments:Does not include Dorcopsulus (see Flannery, 1990:89-92). The name Conoyces Lesson, 1842 was used for this genus by Troughton (1937), but Tate (1948a) showed that the type species of Conoyces is Didelphis brunii Gmelin, 1788 [= Thylogale brunii (Schreber, 1778)]; see under Thylogale.
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