The plush-coated ringtail possum or golden ringtail possum (''Pseudochirops corinnae'') is a species of

marsupial Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are natively found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of marsupials' unique features is their reproductive strategy: the young are born in a r ...

in the family Pseudocheiridae. It is found in

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, and the

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. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.

Names

It is known as wcm, pungi-mdep, wlpog in the Kalam language of

.Pawley, Andrew and Ralph Bulmer. 2011. ''A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes''. Canberra. Pacific Linguistics.

References

Possums Mammals described in 1897 Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Marsupials of New Guinea {{Diprotodont-stub