Spilocuscus maculatus Desmarest, 1818 . Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., Nouv. ed., 25:472.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Vogelkop, Manokwari Div., Manokwari .

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea and adjacent small islands; Aru and Kei Isis, Ceram, Amboina and Selayar Isis (Indonesia); Cape York Peninsula (Queensland, Australia).

STATUS: CITES - Appendix II; but "common" in New Guinea (Flannery, 1990).

SYNONYMS: brevicaudatus, chrysorrhous, goldiei, kraemeri ?, nudicaudatus, ochropus, quoy, variegata.

COMMENTS: Commonly cited from "E. Geoffroy, 1803. Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris., p. 149"; but see comments in Appendix I. Feiler (1978a) included atrimaculatus in this species, but G. G. George (1979:98) placed it in rufoniger .