Gebe cuscus
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Gebe cuscus[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Family: | Phalangeridae |
Genus: | Phalanger |
Species: | P. alexandrae
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Binomial name | |
Phalanger alexandrae Flannery & Boeadi, 1995
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Gebe cuscus range |
The Gebe cuscus (Phalanger alexandrae) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae. It is endemic to the island of Gebe, North Maluku province, Indonesia, where it lives at elevations from sea level to 300 m.[2]
It is named after the Australian anthropologist Alexandra Szalay.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). "Order Diprotodontia". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Leary, T.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Helgen, K.; Wright, D.; Allison, A.; Flannery, T.; Salas, L.; Dickman, C. (2016). "Phalanger alexandrae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T16858A21950608. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T16858A21950608.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Beolens, Bo. (2009). The eponym dictionary of mammals. Watkins, Michael, 1940-, Grayson, Michael. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8018-9533-3. OCLC 593239356.