Species profile—Petaurus breviceps sensu lato (sugar glider)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Petauridae (Striped Possum and Wrist-winged Gliders) → Petaurus breviceps sensu lato (sugar glider)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Petauridae (Striped Possum and Wrist-winged Gliders)
- Scientific name
- Petaurus breviceps sensu lato (Waterhouse, 1838)
- Common name
- sugar glider
- Type reference
- Waterhouse, G.R. (1838). Some skulls of the flying opossums (Petaurista). The Athenaeum 580, 880. [8 Dec 1838]
- WildNet taxon ID
- 877
- Superseded by
- Petaurus breviceps (sugar glider)
Petaurus ariel (savanna glider)
Petaurus notatus (Krefft's glider) - Alternate name(s)
- sugar squirrel
lesser glider
lesser flying phalanger
short-headed phalanger
lesser flying squirrel - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
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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=877.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
