{"offset":0,"limit":20,"endOfRecords":true,"results":[{"key":463139833,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"conservation","language":"eng","description":"Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt) as Queensland subpopulation, otherwise Lower Risk (lc). CITES – Appendix II as P. orientalis.","source":"Order Diprotodontia","sourceTaxonKey":231549120},{"key":463139834,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"discussion","language":"eng","description":"Discussion: Flannery et al. (1987) suggested that what were hitherto regarded as the southern races of P. orientalis may prove to be specifically, even generically distinct, as Strigocuscus mimicus, and Flannery (1994 a) definitively separated them but used the earlier name intercastellanus. Norris and Musser (2001) returned this species to Phalanger, and separated P. mimicus from it (see below). The species needs revision; at present no subspecies are recognized.","source":"Order Diprotodontia","sourceTaxonKey":231549120},{"key":463139835,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"distribution","language":"eng","description":"Distribution: SE Papua New Guinea, east of Markham valley; Sariba, Itoh, Goodenough, Fergusson, Normanby, Kiriwina, Misima, Sudest and Rossel Isl.","source":"Order Diprotodontia","sourceTaxonKey":231549120},{"key":463139836,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"materials_examined","language":"eng","description":"Type Locality: Papua New Guinea, D’Entrecasteaux group, Fergusson Isl.","source":"Order Diprotodontia","sourceTaxonKey":231549120},{"key":463535723,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"activity","language":"eng","description":"Activity patterns. There is no specific information available for this species, but the Eastern Common Cuscus is no doubt nocturnal, like other species of Phalanger.","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988},{"key":463535724,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"biology_ecology","language":"eng","description":"Habitat. Primary and secondary tropical moist forest, especially in lowlands, from sea level to elevations of ¢. 1250 m. The Eastern Common Cuscus is a fairly adaptable species; it is also found in rural gardens and thrives in island contexts.","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988},{"key":463535725,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"biology_ecology","language":"eng","description":"Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is no information available for this species.","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988},{"key":463535726,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"breeding","language":"eng","description":"Breeding. Pouch young of Eastern Common Cuscuses have been observed on Kiriwina Island in August and dependent young (240 - 265 g) on Normanby Island in December. Twin births of Eastern Common Cuscuses may be less common than in closely related Northern Common Cuscuses.","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988},{"key":463535727,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"conservation","language":"eng","description":"Status and Conservation. CITES Appendix II. Classified as Least Concern on The [UCN Red List. The Eastern Common Cuscus has a relatively wide distribution and presumably a large overall population. It also appears to be able to tolerate some degree of habitat modification. Major conservation threats include local hunting for food and habitat loss from logging and development of large-scale plantations, especially oil palm.","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988},{"key":463535728,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"description","language":"eng","description":"Descriptive notes. Head-body 35 - 45 cm, tail 27.5 - 32.5 cm; weight 1.4 - 2.2 kg. The Eastern Common Cuscus is a medium-sized cuscus (condylobasal length 70 - 87 mm), averaging smaller than the Northern Common Cuscus (P. orientalis) but larger than the Southern Common Cuscus (P mimicus). The Eastern Common Cuscus 1 s an extremely variable species in terms of color, ranging from white to gray to reddish-brown. Color is generally sexually dichromatic; males are usually grayish-white, and females are usually gray or brown. Body has prominent dorsalstripe, and tail is dark-tipped.","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988},{"key":463535729,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"distribution","language":"eng","description":"Distribution. EE New Guinea, from the Markham Valley and the Huon Gulf S through the entire SE peninsula of Papua New Guinea, N and S of the Central Range. It occurs widely on islands off the SE coast, including the D’Entrecasteaux, Trobriand, and Louisiade archipelagos (Goodenough, Normanby, Fergusson, Kiriwina, Rossel, Sudest, Sariba, Sideia, and Itoh Is).","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988},{"key":463535730,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"food_feeding","language":"eng","description":"Food and Feeding. There is no specific information available for this species, but the Eastern Common Cuscusis primarily folivorous — frugivorous.","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988},{"key":463535731,"taxonKey":2440276,"type":"materials_examined","language":"eng","description":"“ D’Entrecasteaux ” (= Fergusson, D’Entrecasteaux Archipelago, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea). This species has often been included within the closely related species P. orientalis. Populations from the Trans-Fly region of New Guinea, Aru Islands, and Cape York Peninsula of Australia, included in P. intercastellanus in the past, are now regarded as a separate species, P. mimicus. Monotypic.","source":"Phalangeridae","sourceTaxonKey":195958988}]}