Petauroides Thomas 1888

Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Diprotodontia, Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 43-70 : 50

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scientific name	Petauroides Thomas 1888
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Petauroides Thomas 1888 , Cat. Marsup. Monotr. Brit. Mus.: 163.

Type Species: Didelphis volans Kerr 1792

Synonyms: Schoinobates Iredale and Troughton 1934 ; Volucella Bechstein 1800 .

Species and subspecies: 1 species with 2 subspecies:

Species Petauroides volans ( Kerr 1792)

Subspecies Petauroides volans subsp. volans Kerr 1792

Subspecies Petauroides volans subsp. minor Collett 1887

Discussion: 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.