Phalanger ornatus (Gray, 1860) . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860:374.

TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia: Bachian (= Bacan or Batjan) Isl .

DISTRIBUTION: Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore, Bacan, Morotai Isis (Indonesia).

STATUS: Apparently common.

COMMENTS: For status see Groves (1987). Provisionally allotted to Strigocuscus by Flannery et al. (1987) although they did not examine specimens.