Blue-eyed cuscus

Blue-eyed cuscus
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 2 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.
  2. Groves, C.P. (2005). "Order Diprotodontia". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.


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