Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse, 1839

Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 45-62 : 61

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scientific name	Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse, 1839
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Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse, 1839 View in CoL . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838:152 [1839].

TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales .

DISTRIBUTION: SE South Australia to Cape York Peninsula (Queensland), Tasmania (introduction), N Northern Territory, NE Western Australia; New Guinea and adjacent small islands, including Bismarck Arch.; Aru Isis and N Moluccas ( Indonesia).

STATUS: Common.

SYNONYMS: ariel, biacensis , flavidus, kohlsi, longicaudatus, notatus , papuanus , tafa.

COMMENTS: See Smith (1973, Mammalian Species, 30). McAllan and Bruce (1989) argued that the original publication of this name was in The Athenaeum, 580:880 [8 Dec 1838].