Australian Museum Journal Taxonomy of Dendrolagus goodfellowi (Macropodidae: Marsupialia) with description of a new subspecies
- Shortform:
- Flannery, 1993, Rec. Aust. Mus. 45(1): 33–42
- Author(s):
- Flannery, Tim F.
- Year published:
- 1993
- Title:
- Taxonomy of Dendrolagus goodfellowi (Macropodidae: Marsupialia) with description of a new subspecies
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 33
- End page:
- 42
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.45.1993.128
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- colour plate
- Date published:
- 19 March 1993
- Cover date:
- 19 March 1993
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- MAMMALIA: MARSUPIALIA
- Digitized:
- 05 February 2009
- Reference number:
- 128
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (99kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1320kb PDF)
Abstract
Three subspecies of Dendrolagus goodfellowi can be distinguished. The nominotypical form is known from two skins and a skull collected in south-eastern New Guinea. Dendrolagus g. buergersi (of which D. g. shawmayeri is here considered a synonym) is the best represented in museum collections, and is distributed along the Papua New Guinea Central Cordillera, from Wau in the east to Mount Bubiari in the west. Dendrolagus g. pulcherrimus n.subsp. is known from a complete spirit specimen, one skin and two skulls collected near Sibilanga in the North Coast Ranges. It is the most distinctive of the subspecies, readily distinguished from all other forms by the broad P3 with large posterobuccal cusp, orange shoulders, head and ear, pale yellow to white tail rings, white ear margins and pinkish limbs and face. Questioning of local hunters suggests that it is already extinct through most of its original range.