Petauroides Thomas, 1888

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 45-62 : 58

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Petauroides Thomas, 1888 View in CoL . Cat. Marsup. Monotr. Brit. Mus., p. 163.

TYPE SPECIES: Didelphis volans Kerr, 1792 .

SYNONYMS: Petaurista, Schoinobates, Volucella .

COMMENTS: Formerly Schoinobates Lesson, 1842 . This name was used by Lesson only for Petaurista leucogenys Temminck, 1823 , a giant flying squirrel ( McKay, 1982). The names Volucella and Petaurista were both preoccupied.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Diprotodontia
Family	Pseudocheiridae

Petauroides Thomas, 1888

Colin P. Groves 1993

1993

Petauroides

Thomas 1888: 163

1888

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