Species Dendrolagus bennettianus De Vis, 1887

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• Dendrolagus bennettianus De Vis, C.W. 1887. Notice of a probable new species of Dendrolagus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 3(1886): 11-14 [Date published Aug. 1887: publication date established from Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122] [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM J307 skin, Daintree River, QLD.
• Dendrolagus bennettianus De Vis, C.W. 1886. Abstract. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1886: 5 [Date published 27 October 1886] [5] [nom. nud.; from Daintree River, QLD, see Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122].

  Secondary source:

   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.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, frugivorous, nocturnal, territorial.

Extra Ecological Information

Predominantly nocturnal.

General References

Flannery, T.F., Martin, R.W. & Szalay, A. 1996. Tree-kangaroos: A Curious Natural History. Sydney : Reed Books.

Groves, C.P. 1982. The systematics of tree kangaroos (Dendrolagus: Marsupialia, Macropodidae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 157-186

Martin, R.W. 2005. Tree-kangaroos of Australia and New Guinea. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishers 168 pp.

Martin, R.W. & Johnson, P.M. 1995. Bennett's Tree-kangaroo Dendrolagus bennettianus. pp. 307-308 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Winter, J. 1991. Mammals. pp. 43-54 in Nix, H.A. & Switzer, M.A. (eds). Rainforest Animals: Atlas of vertebrates endemic to Australia's wet tropics. Canberra : Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service 111 pp. [Kowari]

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Bennett's Tree-kangaroo)

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