PETAURIDAE, Bonaparte, 1838

Russell A. Mittermeier & Don E. Wilson, 2015, Petauridae, Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5 Monotremes and Marsupials, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 52-565 : 52

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6656820

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6620329

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A1613-FFBD-FF97-8280-FD3ACFEEFA2A

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scientific name

PETAURIDAE
status

 

Family PETAURIDAE View in CoL

(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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Diprotodontia

Family

Petauridae

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