HOME --> CLASS MAMMALIA
--> ORDER DIPROTODONTIA
--> SUBORDER PHALANGERIFORMES
--> SUPERFAMILY Petauroidea
--> FAMILY Petauridae
--> GENUS Petaurus
SPECIES Petaurus breviceps
Author: | Waterhouse, 1838. | Actual Date: | 1839 | Citation: | Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838: 152. | Common Name: | Sugar Glider | Type Locality: | Australia, New South Wales. | Distribution: | SE South Australia to Cape York Peninsula (Queensland), Tasmania (introduction), N Northern Territory, NE Western Australia; New Guinea and adjacent small islands, including Bismarck Arch.; Aru Isls and N Moluccas (Indonesia). | Status: | IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Common. | Comments: | See Smith (1973, Mammalian Species, 30). McAllan and Bruce (1989) argued that the original publication of this name was in The Athenaeum, 580:880 [8 Dec 1838]. An undescribed form from Tifalmin, west of the Sepik, is very distinct (Colgan and Flannery, 1992). Gliders from Goodenough, Fergusson and Normanby Isls (D’Entrecasteaux group), Papua New Guinea, usually identified as belonging to this species, are very distinct morphologically, if not electrophoretically (Flannery, 1994a). |
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