Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Dasyuromorphia, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 22-37 : 26

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11335931
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scientific name	Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858
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Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858 View in CoL

Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858: 112.

Type Locality: Aru Isl.

Vernacular Names: Wallace's Dasyure.

Synonyms: Myoictis pilicauda (Peters and Doria 1881) .

Distribution: Southern New Guinea and Aru Isls ( Indonesia).

Conservation: Unknown, but rare.

Discussion: 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., 1997 a).

References

Archer, M. 1982. Review of the dasyurid (Marsupialia) fossil record, integration of data bearing on phylogenetic interpretation, and suprageneric classification. Pp. 397 - 443, in Carnivorous Marsupials (M. Archer, ed). Royal Society of New South Wales, Syndey, 2: 1 - 804.

Krajewski, C., J. Young, L. Buckley, P. A. Woolley, and M. Westerman. 1997 a. Reconstructing the evolutionary radiation of dasyurine marsupials with cytochrome b, 12 S rRNA, and protamine P 1 gene trees. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 4: 217 - 236.