The coppery ringtail possum (''Pseudochirops cupreus'') 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
Indonesia
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and
Papua New Guinea
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.
It is known as ymduŋ; bald, kagm, kas-gs, tglem-tud in the
Kalam language of
Papua New Guinea
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.
[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
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