The painted ringtail possum or moss-forest ringtail possum (''Pseudochirulus forbesi'') 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 inhabits
montane forests between altitudes of 450 to 3800 metres throughout the
Huon Peninsula montane rain forests,
Central Range montane rain forests and
Huon Peninsula montane rain forests of
Papua New Guinea
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.
It has a diet of primarily leaves, including those of
Medinilla.
Names
It is known as skoyd or boñay 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
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