Eastern common cuscus
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Species: | P. intercastellanus
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Phalanger intercastellanus Thomas, 1895
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Eastern common cuscus range |
The eastern common cuscus (Phalanger intercastellanus) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae found in eastern Papua New Guinea.[2] Until recently, it was considered conspecific with P. mimicus, and before that also with P. orientalis.
References
- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 46. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
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