page_title: Alexandra Szalay
section_title: Eponym
hierarchical_section_title: Alexandra Szalay / Career / Eponym
caption_attribution_description: English: Gebe Cuscus (Phalanger alexandrae) range
context_page_description: Alexandra Szalay is an Australian anthropologist and mammalogist, who specialises in the study of Papua New Guinea. The Gebe cuscus is named after her.
context_section_description: Whilst a member of the 1994 expedition with Tim Flannery and Indonesian scientist Boeadi, a new species of cuscus was described for the first time and named after Szalay. The cuscus is only found in the island of Gebe in the North Moluccas. The Gebe cuscus (Phalanger alexandrae) lives between sea level and 300m and is endemic to the island in inhabits.
caption: Gebe Cuscus area
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