HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DIPROTODONTIA
--> SUBORDER PHALANGERIFORMES
--> SUPERFAMILY Phalangeroidea
--> FAMILY Phalangeridae
--> SUBFAMILY Phalangerinae
--> TRIBE Phalangerini
--> GENUS Phalanger
SPECIES Phalanger ornatus
Author: | Gray, 1860. | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860: 374. | Common Name: | Ornate Cuscus | Type Locality: | Indonesia: Bachian (= Bacan or Batjan) Isl. | Distribution: | Halmahera, Bacan, possibly Morotai Isls (Indonesia). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Apparently common. | Comments: | For status see Groves (1987). Provisionally allotted to Strigocuscus by Flannery et al. (1987) although they did not examine specimens. |
|
|
|
|