Banggai cuscus

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Banggai cuscus
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A banggai cuscus on a tree
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Marsupialia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phalangeridae
Genus: Strigocuscus
Species:
S. pelengensis
Binomial name
Strigocuscus pelengensis
(Tate, 1945)
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Banggai cuscus range

The Banggai cuscus (Strigocuscus pelengensis) is a species of cuscus, a type of possum. Also known as the Peleng cuscus, Menden's cuscus or Peleng phalanger, [2] it is found in the Peleng and Sula Islands to the east of Sulawesi in Indonesia. [3]

References

  1. Leary, T.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Helgen, K.; Allison, A.; James, R.; Flannery, T.; Aplin, K.; Dickman, C.; Salas, L. (2016). "Strigocuscus pelengensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T20892A21951846. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T20892A21951846.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. "Phalanger pelengensis Tate, 1945". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists . Retrieved 28 August 2025.
  3. Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M., eds. (2005). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 49. ISBN   978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC   62265494.