Family PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE

(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.

• Australasian Region.

• Montane and lowlands, rainforests to sclerophyll forests and woodlands.

• 6 genera, 20 species, 27 taxa.

• 3 species Vulnerable; no species Extinct since 1600.