Phalanger maculatus (E. Geoffroy, 1803) . Cat. Mamm. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, p. 149.

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

DISTRIBUTION: New Guinea and adjacent small islands; Aru and Kei isls., Seram, Ambon and Saleyer isls.; Cape York Peninsula (Queensland).

COMMENT: Laurie and Hill, 1954:14, regarded Geoffroy, 1803, as unavailable, preferring Desmarest, 1818, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., 25:472. Feiler, 1978, Zool. Abh. Mus. Tierk. Dresden, 35:3- 13, included atrimaculatus in this species, but George, 1979, in Tyler, ed., The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife, p. 98, placed it in rufoniger . All three may be conspecific (ACZ).

PROTECTED STATUS: CITES - Appendix II.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301402006001004001.