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- Superseded by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
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://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.
