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- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Spilocuscus
- Image
- Phalanger maculatus (male) - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria - Genoa, Italy - DSC03051.JPG
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Spilocuscus maculatus
- taxon name
- Spilocuscus maculatus
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- Spilocuscus maculatus
- taxon common name
- cuscús pintu
- endemic to
- Australia
- taxon author citation
- (Desmarest, 1818)
- short name
- S. maculatus
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Encyclopedic overview
The common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Common spotted cuscus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.