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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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SUBSPECIES breviceps

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SUBSPECIES longicaudatus

SUBSPECIES papuanus

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