Dendrolagus spadix Troughton & Le Souef, 1936a

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 334

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https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1653

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7562772

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scientific name

Dendrolagus spadix Troughton & Le Souef, 1936a
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Dendrolagus spadix Troughton & Le Souef, 1936a View in CoL View at ENA

Aust. Zool. 8(3): 194. (29 June 1936).

Common name. Lowlands Tree-kangaroo.

Current name. Dendrolagus spadix Troughton & Le Souef, 1936a ; following Eldridge & Coulson (2015).

Holotype. M.4561 by original designation. Adult male, flat skin only, collected by Captain G. F. W. Zimmer, presented by A. Le Souef, registered April 1929, collection date not given in register.

Condition. Flat skin: tail broken in two, but stitched together, five small holes in the skin; missing both manus and both pes.

Type locality. Between the Upper Awarra and Strickland Rivers, Western Province, Papua New Guinea.

Paratype. M.5978 by original designation. Indeterminate sex, subadult, skull, flat skin, Bamu River district, Western Province, Papua New Guinea, obtained by A. J. Bates, apparently received from the “Resident Magistrate” at Daru, collection date not given, presented by A. Le Souef, registered June 1935.

Comments. Description based on two specimens.

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