Authority citation: Aplin, K.P., Pasveer, J.M. and 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.
Authority publication link: https://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/29.%20Aplin,%20Pasveer,%20Boles.pdf
Original name as described: Dactylopsila kambuayai
Nominal names: kambuayai K. P. Aplin in K. P. Aplin, Pasveer, & Boles, 1999
Other common names: Vogelkop Ring-tailed Possum|Vogelkop Striped Possum
Taxonomy
Subclass: Theria -- Infraclass: Marsupialia -- Order: Diprotodontia -- Family: Petauridae -- Subfamily: Dactylopsilinae
Type specimen voucher catalogue number: WAM 98.7.40
Type locality: "Kria Cave, 3 km east of the village Suwiam/Mapura, northeast of the Ayamaru Lakes, Ayamaru Plateau, central Bird's Head [= Vogelkop], Irian Jaya, Indonesia."
Country distribution (coarse map shown below; most species exist in only part of countries): Indonesia (IDN)
Species Status: This species is currently living, it lives in wild habitats, its taxonomic status is currently accepted, and it is newly recognized since MSW3 2005.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species status: Not evaluated
Species-specific notes: based on subfossil remains but living representatives have been discovered by Ken Aplin, although no publication other than the Handbook of the Mammals of the World has reported on this finding as of now
Citation: Jackson, S. M. 2015a. Family Burramyidae (pygmy possums). Pp. 436–455 in Handbook of the mammals of the world. Volume 5. Marsupials and monotremes (D. E. Wilson and R. A. Mittermeier, eds.). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.|Eldridge, M. D., Beck, R. M., Croft, D. A., Travouillon, K. J., & Fox, B. J. (2019). An emerging consensus in the evolution, phylogeny, and systematics of marsupials and their fossil relatives (Metatheria). Journal of Mammalogy, 100(3), 802-837.
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