New localities, an update on the conservation status and ethnographic notes for the dingiso tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus mbaiso Flannery, Boeadi et Szalay (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae)
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Michael Wild
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Michael Balke
Abstract
Dendrolagus mbaiso is a very rare tree kangaroo (Macropodidae) that was previously only known from the high mountain moss forests of the southern and western slopes of the Sudirman Range of the Snow Mountains in Papua. Here, a northern range extension of D. mbaiso is reported from within the traditional area of the Wano people. It was found on elevations from 1500 m to 3600 m. We also provide ethnographic notes from the Wano people, notes on the sympatric occurrence of D. mbaiso with Dendrolagus dorianus and observations on the variation of the fur color.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the Wano people who shared the furs as well as the information and stories about Dendrolagus mbaiso. We thank Dr. K. Krey of the Department of Biology, University of Papua (UNIPA), Manokwari, West Papua, for housing the fur vouchers.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Obituary
- In memoriam Jamshid Darvish
- Museology/history of sciences
- On the shoulders of giants: Reginald Innes Pocock and integrative mammal research in museums and zoos
- Ecology
- Space use and movement of jaguar (Panthera onca) in western Paraguay
- A review of the status of the Western polecat Mustela putorius: a neglected and declining species?
- Diversity of primates and other mammals in the middle Purus basin in the Brazilian Amazon
- Rapid expansion of the American mink poses a serious threat to the European mink in Spain
- New reports of the presence and ecology of the Sumatran striped rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri) in South Sumatra
- Reproduction of the golden jackal (Canis aureus) outside current resident breeding populations in Europe: evidence from the Czech Republic
- Dung-pile use by guanacos in eastern Patagonia
- Conservation
- Stable isotope analysis as a minimal-invasive method for dietary studies on the highly endangered Common hamster (Cricetus cricetus)
- New localities, an update on the conservation status and ethnographic notes for the dingiso tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus mbaiso Flannery, Boeadi et Szalay (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae)
- Biogeography
- First record of the Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus (Pteropodidae), from Kastellorizo island, Greece
- Recent records of dhole (Cuon alpinus, Pallas 1811) in Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India
- Evolutionary biology
- First records of hypopigmentation disorders in the Peters’ ghost-faced bat Mormoops megalophylla (Chiroptera, Mormoopidae)
- Historical record of Holochilus vulpinus (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from northern Patagonia, Argentina
- Taxonomy/phylogeny
- On the identity of Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758
- Annual reviewer acknowledgement
- Reviewer acknowledgement Mammalia volume 82 (2018)
