Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse 1838
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Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse 1838 View in CoL
Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse 1838 View in CoL , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838: 152.
Type Locality: Australia, New South Wales.
Vernacular Names: Sugar Glider.
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Subspecies Petaurus breviceps subsp. breviceps Waterhouse 1838
Subspecies Petaurus breviceps subsp. ariel Gould 1842
Subspecies Petaurus breviceps subsp. longicaudatus Longman 1924
Subspecies Petaurus breviceps subsp. papuanus Thomas 1888
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).
Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc). Common.
Discussion: 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, 1994 a).
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Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse 1838
Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn 2005 |
Petaurus breviceps
Waterhouse 1838: 152 |