Pseudochirus rubidus Troughton & Le Souef, 1929a

Parnaby, Harry E., Ingleby, Sandy & Divljan, Anja, 2017, Type Specimens of Non-fossil Mammals in the Australian Museum, Sydney, Records of the Australian Museum 69 (5), pp. 277-420 : 324-325

Pseudochirus rubidus Troughton & Le Souef, 1929a

Rec. Aust. Mus. 17(6): 294, fig. 1, plate xlv. ( 28 November 1929).

Common name. Eastern Ring-tailed Possum.

Current name. Pseudocheirus peregrinus peregrinus ( Boddaert, 1785) , following Jackson & Groves (2015), who note that Pseudocheirus peregrinus needs taxonomic revision.

Holotype. M.2791 by original designation. Female adult, skull, study skin, collected by Mr Fred Morse, on 1 October 1919; registered 26 November 1919.

Condition. Cranium: missing both 2nd upper incisors, both 1st upper post-canine teeth, last left upper molar (as per fig. 1 of original description), missing right tip of paroccipital process, small section missing from left zygomatic arch (as per fig. 1 of original description); left dentary missing first incisor; both dentaries missing lower incisors; left dentary missing tip of coronoid process. Study skin in good condition, torn right ear tip.

Type locality. From “a little north of Mount Mowbullan, at 3,000 feet ” (Troughton), Bunya Mountains, south eastern Qld, Australia.

Comments. Based on one specimen.