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Peleng Cuscus
Phalanger pelengensis Tate, 1945

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Mammalia - mammals »  order Diprotodontia - diprotodont marsupials »  family Phalangeridae - brushtail possums »  genus Phalanger

Scientific synonyms

Phalanger celebensis pelengensis Tate, 1945
Strigocuscus pelengensis (Tate, 1945)

Other names

= Banggai Cuscus
= Menden's Cuscus
= Peleng Phalanger

Least Concern LC  as Strigocuscus pelengensis

Included taxa

Number of records: 2

subspecies Phalanger pelengensis mendeni Feiler, 1978
subspecies Phalanger pelengensis pelengensis Tate, 1945

Links and literature

EN IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024-1 [20892]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species [http://www.iucnredlist.org/] [as Strigocuscus pelengensis (Tate, 1945)]
Data retrieved on: 29 January 2024
EN ASM Mammal Diversity Database 2.1 [1000389]

ASM Mammal Diversity Database [https://www.mammaldiversity.org/], American Society of Mammalogists [as Phalanger pelengensis Tate, 1945]
Data retrieved on: 29 May 2025
EN Wilson D. E., Reeder D. M. (editors) (2005): Mammal Species of the World (MSW). A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed) [http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3] [as Strigocuscus pelengensis Tate, 1945]
Data retrieved on: 5 December 2008
CZ Anděra M. (1999): České názvy živočichů II. Savci (Mammalia), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 147 pp. [as Phalanger pelengensis Tate, 1945]
CZ Anděra M. (2011): České názvy živočichů. Savci (Mammalia). Dodatek 1 – Vačnatí (Metatheria), Lynx, n. s. Praha [as Strigocuscus pelengensis]
Data retrieved on: 8 March 2011

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