Species Pseudochirulus cinereus (Tate, 1945)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudocheirus herbertensis cinereus Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 54 The marsupial genus Pseudocheirus and its subgenera. American Museum Novitates 1287: 1-30 [11 June 1945] [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 107275 ♂ adult skin & skull, Mt Spurgeon, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Pseudochirulus cinereus (Tate, 1945). —
  Murray, J.D., McKay, G.M., Winter, J.W. & Ingleby, S. 1989. Cytogenetics of the Herbert River ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus herbertensis (Diprotodontia: Pseudocheiridae); evidence for two species. Genome 32: 1119-1123

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, tropical.

General References

Murray, J.D., McKay, G.M., Winter, J.W. & Ingleby, S. 1989. Cytogenetics of the Herbert River ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus herbertensis (Diprotodontia: Pseudocheiridae); evidence for two species. Genome 32: 1119-1123

Nix, H.A. & Switzer, M.A. (eds) 1991. Rainforest Animals: Atlas of vertebrates endemic to Australia's wet tropics. Canberra : Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service 111 pp. [Kowari]

Winter, J.W. 1984. Conservation studies of tropical rainforest possums. pp. 469-481 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Daintree River Ringtail Possum)

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