Genus Phalanger Storr, 1780

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phalanger Storr, G.C.C. 1780. Prodromus Methodi Mammalium. Tubingen. [33].

  Type species:

   Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by monotypy.
• Coescoes Pallas, P.S. 1766. Miscellanea Zoologica, quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Hagae. Comitum : Petrum van Cleef xii 224 pp. xiv pls. [60] [nom. oblit.; Coescoes has generally been attributed to Lacépède, É. 1801. Mémoire sur une nouvelle table méthodique des animaux à mammelles. Mém. Inst. Paris 3: 469–502 [491]; intended as a subdivision of Didelphis].

  Type species:

   Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Lacépède, É. 1801. Mémoire sur une nouvelle table méthodique des animaux à mammelles. Mémoires de l'Institut de Paris 3: 469-502.
• Phalangista Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. & Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1795. Mémoire sur une nouvelle division des mammifères, et les principes qui doivent servir de base dans cette sorte de travail. Magasin Encyclopédique. Paris : Millin, Noel et Warens Vol. 2(6) 164-190 pp. [187].

  Type species:

   Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by monotypy.
• Balantia Illiger, J.C.W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica. Berolini : Sumptibus C. Salfeld xvii 301 pp. [77].

  Type species:

   Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by subsequent designation, see Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888].
• Sipalus Fischer, G. 1813. Zoognosia Tabulis Synopticis Illustrata, in usum praelectionem academiae medico-chirurgicae mosquensis editae. Editio tertia. Moscow : Vsevolozsky Vol. 2. [581].

  Type species:

   Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by subsequent designation, see Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888].
• Cuscus Lesson, R.P. 1826. Description des mammifères. Ch. 3 in Lesson, R.P. & Garnot, P. Zoologie Pt 1 in Duperrey, M.L.I. Voyage Autour du Monde Exécuté par Ordre du Roi sur la Corvette de sa Majesté la Coquille Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 & 1825. Paris : Arthus Bertrand. [150] [name attributed to Lacépède without reference].

  Type species:

   Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by subsequent designation, see Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888].
• Ceonix Temminck, C.J. 1827. Monographies de Mammalogie, ou description de quelques genres de mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées d'Europe. Ouvrage accompagné de planches d'Ostéologie, pouvant servir de suite et de complément aux notices sur les animaux vivans, publiées par M. le Baron G. Cuvier, dans ses recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. Paris : G. Dufour & E. D'Ocagne Vol. 1. [10] [provisional name only; incorrectly spelled as Ceonyx in Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls [3 Nov. 1888] and in many other 19th Century references].

  Secondary source:

   Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888].
• Eucuscus Gray, J.E. 1862. Additional observations on the genus Cuscus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1861: 314-321 [7 Apr. 1862] [316] [proposed as subgenus of Cuscus Lesson, 1826].

  Type species:

   Phalangista ursina Temminck, 1827 by subsequent designation, see Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• George, G.G. 1987. Characterisation of the living species of cuscus (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). pp. 507-526 in Archer, M. (ed.). Possums and Opossums: studies in evolution. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons with the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2 vols lxxii 788 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia from Sulawesi to Irian Jaya.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Distribution References

General References

Norris, C.A. & Musser, G.G. 2001. Systematic revision within the Phalanger orientalis complex (Diprotodontia, Phalangeridae): a third species of lowland cuscus from New Guinea and Australia. American Museum Novitates No. 3356: 1-20 [5]

 

History of changes

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