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GENUS Petauroides

Author:Thomas, 1888.
Citation:Cat. Marsup. Monotr. Brit. Mus.: 163.
Type Species:Didelphis volans Kerr, 1792.
Comments:Formerly known as Schoinobates Lesson, 1842. This name was used by Lesson only for Petaurista leucogenys Temminck, 1823, a giant flying squirrel (McKay, 1982); its use for this genus dates only from Iredale and Troughton (1934), though McKenna and Bell (1997) continue to use Schoinobates for it without citing McKay’s (1982) paper. The names Volucella and Petaurista were both preoccupied.
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SPECIES volans

SUBSPECIES volans

SUBSPECIES minor

Synonyms:

    Petaurista Desmarest, 1820
    Schoinobates Iredale and Troughton, 1934
    Volucella Bechstein, 1800

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