Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858

Myoictis wallacii Gray 1858, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858: 112.

Type Locality: Aru Isl.

Vernacular Names: Wallace's Dasyure.

Synonyms: Myoictis pilicauda (Peters and Doria 1881) .

Distribution: Southern New Guinea and Aru Isls (Indonesia).

Conservation: Unknown, but rare.

Discussion: Usually considered a subspecies of M. melas, but separated as a species by Archer (1982:417), and molecular data suggest that they may have separated several million years ago (Krajewski et al., 1997 a).