Subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula johnstoni (Ramsay, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phalangista johnstonii Ramsay, E.P. 1888. Notes on the fauna of the Bellenden-Ker Ranges. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1295-1299 [Date published 7 Dec. 1831] [1297].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM M120 ♂ adult skin with skull not removed, probably Atherton Tableland (as Bellenden Ker Range), QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  McKay, G.M. 1988. Phalangeridae. pp. 81-86 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

History of changes