Family PETAURIDAE

(STRIPED POSSUMS, LEADBEATER’S POSSUM AND LESSER GLIDERS)

• Medium-sized arboreal marsupials with strong facial markings and one or more distinct dorsal stripes. • 30-80 cm.

• Australasian Region.

• Montane forest, lowland forest, and sclerophyll forest and woodland, some species in rainforest.

• 3 genera, 12 species, 18 taxa.

• | species Critically Endangered, 3 species Endangered; no species Extinct since 1600.