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--> ORDER DIPROTODONTIA
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--> SUPERFAMILY Phalangeroidea
--> FAMILY Phalangeridae
--> SUBFAMILY Phalangerinae
--> TRIBE Phalangerini
--> GENUS Phalanger
SPECIES Phalanger intercastellanus
Author: | Thomas, 1895. | Citation: | Novit. Zool., 2: 165. | Common Name: | Eastern Common Cuscus | Type Locality: | Papua New Guinea, D’Entrecasteaux group, Fergusson Isl. | Distribution: | SE Papua New Guinea, east of Markham valley; Sariba, Itoh, Goodenough, Fergusson, Normanby, Kiriwina, Misima, Sudest and Rossel Isl. | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as Queensland subpopulation, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). CITES – Appendix II as P. orientalis. | Comments: | Flannery et al. (1987) suggested that what were hitherto regarded as the southern races of P. orientalis may prove to be specifically, even generically distinct, as Strigocuscus mimicus, and Flannery (1994a) definitively separated them but used the earlier name intercastellanus. Norris and Musser (2001) returned this species to Phalanger, and separated P. mimicus from it (see below). The species needs revision; at present no subspecies are recognized. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
brevinasus Thomas, 1895 kiriwinae Thomas, 1896 matsika Tate and Archbold, 1935 meeki Thomas, 1898
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