Dactylopsila megalura

W. Rothschild & Dollman, 1932

Great-tailed Striped Possum

Taxonomy

Subclass : Theria
Infraclass : Marsupialia
Superorder : Australidelphia
Order : Diprotodontia
Suborder : Macropodiformes
Superfamily : Petauroidea
Family : Petauridae
Subfamily : Dactylopsilinae
Genus : Dactylopsila

Species status

Living
Found in the wild
Listed in MSW3 2005

Authority citation

Rothschild, W., 2nd Baron Rothschild and Dollman, G. 1932-11-22. New mammals from Dutch New Guinea. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 353:13-15.

Authority publication link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb01559.x

Original name as described

Dactylopsila megalura

Other common names

Great-tailed Triok

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1939.3040, AMNH M-101989

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-101989 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/febd5ad6-607d-42d0-8828-afe94046534a

Type locality

"The Gebroeders [Mountains], Weyland Range, Dutch New Guinea."

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia · Papua New Guinea

IUCN Red List status

Least Concern

Species Permalink

https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000335

Country distribution map

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Names and synonyms

Present and past (if available) associated names to the species. Click on a name to view its details. If the list is long, scroll down to see more.

Dactylopsila megalura

W. Rothschild & Dollman, 1932

Family

Petauridae

Root name

megalura

Validity status

species

Nomenclatural status

available

Type

BMNH:Mamm:1939.3040, AMNH M-101989

Type kind

syntypes

Type specimen URI

http://portal.vertnet.org/o/amnh/mammals?id=urn-catalog-amnh-mammals-m-101989 https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/febd5ad6-607d-42d0-8828-afe94046534a

Authority page

14

Authority publication

Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London

Name usages

  1. Corbet & Hill (1980:16) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63069)
  2. Honacki, Kinman & Koeppl (1982:40) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/63071)
  3. Groves (2005) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/8527)
  4. Mittermeier & Wilson (2015:50) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/59410)
  5. Mammal Diversity Database (2018:ID #6223) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67336)
  6. Mammal Diversity Database (2019:ID #6223) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67337)
  7. Mammal Diversity Database (2024, https://www.mammaldiversity.org/taxon/1000335) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67250)
  8. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (2024, https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/6223/21960272) (information at https://hesperomys.com/a/67246)

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