Subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis Collett, 1897

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• Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis Collett, R. 1897. On a collection of mammals from north and north-west Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 317-336 pl. 23 [1 Aug. 1897] [328] [first raised to specific status, without comment, by Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford Univ. Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UZMO 1075 ♂ skin & skull, Daly river, NT (Katherine river also in original, but restricted to Daly River).

  Type locality references:

  Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122.

  Secondary source:

   Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

History of changes