PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE, Winge, 1893

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2015, Pseudocheiridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5 Monotremes and Marsupials, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 498-530 : 498

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6670456

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6621309

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scientific name

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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