Phalanger orientalis (Pallas, 1766) . Mise. Zool., p. 61.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Amboina (= Ambon) Isl, Maluku .

DISTRIBUTION: Timor and Ceram Isis (Indonesia) to New Guinea, and adjacent small islands; Bismarck Arch.; Solomon Isis; and E Cape York (Queensland, Australia).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

SYNONYMS: alba, albidus, ambonensis, breviceps, brevinasus, ducatoris, fusca, intercastellanus, kiriwinae, matsika, meeki, microdon, mimicus, minor, molucca, moluccensis, peninsulae, rufa, vulpecula .

COMMENTS: Formerly included interpositus and lullulae (see G. G. George, 1979). Flannery et al. (1987) suggested that the southern races may prove to be specifically, even generically distinct, as Strigocuscus mimicus, but Flannery (1990) did not adopt this course.