Dorcopsis muelleri (Lesson, 1827) . In Duperry (Lesson and Garnot, eds.), Voy. autour du Monde...la Coquille, Zool., 1:164.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Vogelkop, Manokwari Div., Dorei (= Manokwari), Lobo Bay .

DISTRIBUTION: W New Guinea; Misool and Salawati Isis, Aru Isis, and Yapen Isl (Indonesia).

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: brunii, lorentzii, mysoliae, rufolateralis, veterum, yapeni.

COMMENTS: D. muelleri was regarded as a junior synonym of D. veterum by Kirsch and Calaby (1977:21) and Husson (1955:299). George and Schuerer (1978) rejected veterum as based on a Dendrolagus (probably inustus), and employed muelleri; Groves and Flannery (1989) agreed. The original name Didelphis brunii Quoy and Gaimard, was preoccupied and is now Macropus muelleri .