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Dorcopsis
Sign in to saveDorcopsis is a genus of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. The members of the genus are found on the island of New Guinea.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderDiprotodontia
- FamilyMacropodidae
Observations recorded534
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 34
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Macropodidae
- Collections
- UCMP, FMNH, YPM, AMNH, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States, New Guinea, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Macropodinae
- Image
- HalmaturusLuctuosusKeulemans.jpg
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- Commons category
- Dorcopsis
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Dorcopsis
- topic's main category
- Category:Dorcopsis
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Encyclopedic overview
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Dorcopsis is a genus of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. The members of the genus are found on the island of New Guinea.
The fossil record of the genus is scant, coming only from Pliocene southeastern Australia in the form of one species (Dorcopsis wintercookorum) and indeterminate fossil teeth attributed to the genus Dorcopsis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dorcopsis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.