Blue-eyed cuscus

Blue-eyed cuscus
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Diprotodontia
Family: Phalangeridae
Genus: Phalanger
Species: P. matabiru
Binomial name
Phalanger matabiru
Flannery & Boeadi, 1995
Blue-eyed cuscus range

The blue-eyed cuscus (Phalanger matabiru) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae.[2] It is endemic to the two small islands of Ternate and Tidore, west of the island of Halmahera in North Maluku province, Indonesia.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Leary, T., Singadan, R., Menzies, J., Helgen, K., Wright, D., Allison, A. Flannery, T., Salas, L., & Dickman, C. (2008). Phalanger matabiru. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 06 September 2009. Database entry includes justification for why this species is listed as vulnerable
  2. Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Diprotodontia". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.