For the North African dish, see
Couscous.
Cuscus ( or ) is a common name given to the species belonging to four genera of Australasian possums in the family Phalangeridae: Ailurops, Phalanger, Spilocuscus, and Strigocuscus.[1]
The name comes from the word kusu or kuso in some local related languages spoken in the Maluku Islands like Bacan and Ambonese Malay.[2] It is also applied in parts of Indonesia to the Sunda slow loris, where people do not distinguish this from the "kuskus" possums. Note however, that the loris, being a primate, is unrelated to the other cuscus species. Cuscus are marsupials, even though they have some appearances, traits and attributes like those of lemurs of Madagascar, which are prosimians,[3] due to convergent evolution.
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Cuscuses |
Image | Genus | Species | Ref. |
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Ailurops Wagler, 1830 |
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[1]: 485–486 |
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Phalanger Storr, 1780 |
- Gebe cuscus, Phalanger alexandrae Flannery and Boeadi, 1995
- Mountain cuscus, Phalanger carmelitae Thomas, 1898
- Ground cuscus, Phalanger gymnotis (Peters and Doria, 1875)
- Eastern common cuscus, Phalanger intercastellanus Thomas, 1895
- Woodlark cuscus, Phalanger lullulae Thomas, 1896
- Blue-eyed cuscus, Phalanger matabiru Flannery and Boeadi, 1995
- Telefomin cuscus, Phalanger matanim Flannery, 1987
- Southern common cuscus, Phalanger mimicus Thomas, 1922
- Northern common cuscus, Phalanger orientalis (Pallas, 1766)
- Ornate cuscus, Phalanger ornatus (Gray, 1860)
- Rothschild's cuscus, Phalanger rothschildi Thomas, 1898
- Silky cuscus, Phalanger sericeus Thomas, 1907
- Stein's cuscus, Phalanger vestitus (Milne-Edwards, 1877)
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[1]: 489–493 |
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Spilocuscus Gray, 1862 |
- Admiralty Island cuscus, Spilocuscus kraemeri (Schwartz, 1910)
- Common spotted cuscus, Spilocuscus maculatus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803)
- Waigeou cuscus, Spilocuscus papuensis (Desmarest, 1822)
- Black-spotted cuscus, Spilocuscus rufoniger (Zimara, 1937)
- Blue-eyed spotted cuscus, Spilocuscus wilsoni Helgen & Flannery, 2004
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[1]: 495–497 |
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Strigocuscus Gray, 1862 |
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[1]: 486 |
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