Southern common cuscus

Southern Common Cuscus
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Subclass:	Marsupialia
Order:	Diprotodontia
Family:	Phalangeridae
Genus:	Phalanger
Species:	P. mimicus
Binomial name
	Phalanger mimicus; Thomas, 1895

The Southern Common Cuscus (Phalanger mimicus) is also known as Grey Cuscus, Grey Phalanger, and To-ili. An arboreal marsupial, it is indigenous to New Guinea, and is thought to have been deliberately introduced to the Bismarck Archipelago and surrounding areas by humans 20-18 thousand years ago. It eats flowers, leaves and fruit

References

^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 47. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
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[msw3-1] Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 47. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.

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