Dendrolagus lumholtzi Collett, 1884

Wiig, Øystein & Bachmann, Lutz, 2013, The mammal type specimens at the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, Zootaxa 3736 (5), pp. 587-597 : 593

Dendrolagus lumholtzi Collett, 1884

Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1884, 387.

Valid name. Dendrolagus lumholtzi Collett, 1884

Syntypes: NHMO 1864 (F), male, mounted skin with cranium; NHMO 1868 (A), juv., mounted skin with cranium, collected by C. Lumholtz at Herbert Vale, Northern Queensland, February 1883; NHMO 1869 (E), skin with incomplete skeleton (no head), collected by C. Lumholtz at Herbert Vale, Northern Queensland, January 1883; (B), male juv., skin with cranium, collected by C. Lumholtz at Herbert Vale, Northern Queensland, January 1883; (C), female juv., skin with cranium, collected by C. Lumholtz at Herbert Vale, Northern Queensland, January 1883; (D), unsexed, skin with cranium, collected by C. Lumholtz at Herbert Vale, Northern Queensland, January 1883.

Remarks. Collett (1887b) provided an additional detailed description of the six specimens and listed specimen (F) as “The typical specimen”. Specimens (B), (C), and (D) were donated to the British Museum (Natural History Museum, London: 1884.4.18.2), Museo Civico at Genoa (present status not verified), and the Zoological Museum at Copenhagen (Natural History Museum, Copenhagen: ZMUC M241), respectively.