Northern Common Cuscus

Northern Common Cuscus[1]
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Phalangeridae
Genus:	Phalanger
Species:	P. orientalis
Binomial name
Phalanger orientalis (Pallas, 1766)
Northern Common Cuscus range (blue — native, red — introduced, dark gray — origin uncertain)

The Northern Common Cuscus (Phalanger orientalis), also known as the Grey Cuscus, is a species of marsupial in the Phalangeridae family. It is native to northern New Guinea and adjacent smaller islands, but is now also found in the Bismarck Archipelago, south-east and central Moluccas, the Solomons and Timor, where it is believed to have been introduced.^[2] It was formerly considered conspecific with the allopatric P. intercastellanus and P. mimicus.

References

1. ^ Groves, C. (2005). Wilson, D. E., & Reeder, D. M, eds. ed. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 47. OCLC 62265494. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Leary, T., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Helgen, K., Wright, D., Allison, A., Hamilton, S., Salas, L. & Dickman, C. (2008). Phalanger orientalis. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 28 December 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

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