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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderDiprotodontia
  5. ›familyPhalangeridae
  6. ›genusStrigocuscus
Strigocuscus pelengensis
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Banggai Cuscus

Strigocuscus pelengensis (Tate, 1945)

First described in: Am. Mus. Novit. vol.1283 p.3

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, it is found in the Peleng and Sula Islands to the east of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

== References ==

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

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Subspecies:: Subspecies Strigocuscus pelengensis subsp. pelengensis Tate 1945 Subspecies Strigocuscus pelengensis subsp. mendeni Feiler 1978

Order Diprotodontia

discussion

Discussion: For status see Groves (1987). Flannery et al. (1987) doubted that pelengensis really belongs to Phalanger, and Flannery (1994 a) placed it in Strigocuscus.

Order Diprotodontia

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2440283.