Eastern Common Cuscus
Phalanger intercastellanus Thomas, 1895
Also calledCuscus-Comum-Oriental (por) · Cuscús Común de Oriente (spa) · Ostlicher Grauer Kuskus (deu) · Phalanger de d'Entrecasteaux (fra) · kuskus východopapuánský (ces) · pałanka papuaska (pol) · Östlicher Grauer Kuskus (deu) · Южный кускус (rus) · スタインクスクス (jpn)
First described in: Novit. Zool. vol.2 p.165
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
conservation
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as Queensland subpopulation, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). CITES – Appendix II as P. orientalis.
Order Diprotodontia
discussion
Discussion: 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 (1994 a) 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.
Order Diprotodontia
distribution
Distribution: SE Papua New Guinea, east of Markham valley; Sariba, Itoh, Goodenough, Fergusson, Normanby, Kiriwina, Misima, Sudest and Rossel Isl.
Order Diprotodontia
materials_examined
Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, D’Entrecasteaux group, Fergusson Isl.
Order Diprotodontia
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2440276.