Banggai cuscus
| Banggai cuscus | |
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| A banggai cuscus on a tree | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Diprotodontia |
| Family: | Phalangeridae |
| Genus: | Strigocuscus |
| Species: | S. pelengensis
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| 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
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "Phalanger pelengensis Tate, 1945". ASM Mammal Diversity Database. American Society of Mammalogists. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
- ^ 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.
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