Dusky Pademelon
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Dusky pademelon

Photo by Dr. Robert Sprackland. Data supplied by Dr. Frank Bonaccorso, PNG National Museum.

 

Range: Restricted to lowland forests of the trans-Fly area of Papua New Guinea; a relict population may till exist east of Port Moresby.

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 Literature: Click on book to order  

Flannery, Tim. 1995. Mammals of New Guinea. Comstock-Cornell Press. ISBN: 0-8014-3149-2.

Nowak, Ronald. 1991. Walker's Mammals of the World, Fifth Edition. Two volumes. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 0-8018-3970-X.