Species profile—Petaurus ariel (savanna glider)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Petauridae (Striped Possum and Wrist-winged Gliders) → Petaurus ariel (savanna glider)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Petauridae (Striped Possum and Wrist-winged Gliders)
- Scientific name
- Petaurus ariel (Gould, 1842)
- Common name
- savanna glider
- Type reference
- Gould, J. (1842). On some new species of Australian mammals. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 10, 10-14. [Jun 1842]
- WildNet taxon ID
- 36761
- Synonym(s)
- Petaurus breviceps
Petaurus breviceps ariel
Belidea ariel - Alternate name(s)
- sugar glider
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=36761
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
