Blue-eyed Cuscus
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| Blue-eyed Cuscus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Phalangeridae |
| Genus: | Phalanger |
| Species: | P. matabiru |
| Binomial name | |
| Phalanger matabiru Flannery & Boeadi, 1995 |
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| Blue-eyed Cuscus range | |
The Blue-eyed Cuscus (Phalanger matabiru) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae.[2] It is endemic to the two small islands of Ternate and Tidore, west of the island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, Indonesia.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Leary, T., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Helgen, K., Wright, D., Allison, A. Flannery, T., Salas, L., & Dickman, C. (2008). Phalanger matabiru. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 06 September 2009. Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as vulnerable
- ^ Groves, Colin P. (16 November 2005). "Order Diprotodontia (pp. 43-70)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 46-47. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=11000052.
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