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
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://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.
