PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE, Winge, 1893
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6670456 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6621309 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9A5ECE23-4D2B-386A-FD5D-65CBF7AAE8EB |
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Felipe |
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PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE |
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Family PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE View in CoL
(RING-TAILED POSSUMS AND GREATER GLIDERS)
• Medium-sized arboreal marsupials with soft, somewhat woolly fur and short limbs; slow moving and adapted to eating leaves.
• 30-105 cm. View Figure
• Australasian Region. View Figure
• Montane and lowlands, rainforests to sclerophyll forests and woodlands.
• 6 genera, 20 species, 27 taxa.
• 3 species Vulnerable; no species Extinct since 1600.
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