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Post by another specialist on Apr 22, 2006 7:05:40 GMT
A extinct species of striped possum of which remain known only by Holocene subfossils.
Found around the greater Vogelkop region (some including the Arfaks)
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Post by Melanie on Nov 4, 2014 19:23:36 GMT
Aplin, K.P., Pasveer, J.M. & Boles, W.E. 1999. Late Quaternary vertebrates from the Bird's Head Peninsula, Irian Jaya, Indonesia, including descriptions of two previously unknown marsupial species. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 57:351-387.
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Post by Sebbe on Jun 18, 2015 13:52:05 GMT
According to HMW5 this species is still extant, modern records apparently includes an adult female and an associated well-furred immature female collected from montane forest (867m) at Nenei in the Arfak Mts. According to studies by Ken Aplin and Kristofer Helgen this species and D. palpator are altitudinally segregated in the Arfak Mountains.
Frustratingly there is no further information (assuming it will be published at some point), but without a doubt it would seem this species have been rediscovered, in the past others have expressed doubt about the extinction of this species due to the poorly surveyed mammalian fauna in this part of New Guinea.
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Post by Melanie on Jun 19, 2015 9:07:49 GMT
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