Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Diprotodontia > Phalangeridae > Phalanger > Phalanger mimicusPhalanger mimicus (Southern Common Cuscus)The southern common cuscus (Phalanger mimicus), also known as Australian cuscus, grey cuscus, grey phalanger, and to-ili, is an arboreal marsupial endemic to Australia (Cape York), southern New Guinea and possibly the Aru Islands. Until recently, it was considered conspecific with P. intercastellanus, and before that also with P. orientalis. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 8.51 EDGE Score: 2.25 |
Adult Weight [1] | 5.057 lbs (2.294 kg) | Birth Weight [1] | 1 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Forages - Arboreal [2] | 100 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Gestation [1] | 13 days | Litter Size [1] | 2 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 4 years | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 17 inches (43 cm) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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