Phalanger rufoniger Zimara, 1937 . Anz. Acad. Wiss. Wien, 74:35.

TYPE LOCALITY: Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov., Sattelberg .

DISTRIBUTION: N. New Guinea.

COMMENT: Includes atrimaculatus; see George, 1979, in Tyler, ed., The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife, p. 98; but also see Feiler, 1978, Zool. Abh. St. Mus. Tierk, Dresden, 35:3- 13, who placed it in maculatus .

ISIS NUMBER: 5301402006001001001 as P. atrimaculatus .