Southern Common Cuscus

Taxobox
name = Southern Common CuscusMSW3 Groves|pages=47]
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
subclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
familia = Phalangeridae
genus = "Phalanger"
species = "P. mimicus"
binomial = "Phalanger mimicus"
binomial_authority = 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

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