Species profile—Petaurus norfolcensis (squirrel glider)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Mammalia (mammals) → Petauridae (Striped Possum and Wrist-winged Gliders) → Petaurus norfolcensis (squirrel glider)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Mammalia (mammals)
- Family
- Petauridae (Striped Possum and Wrist-winged Gliders)
- Scientific name
- Petaurus norfolcensis (Kerr, 1792)
- Common name
- squirrel glider
- Type reference
- Kerr, R. (1792). The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class I. Mammalia. London: J. Murray & R. Faulder Vol. 1 Pt 1 xl 400 pp. 9 pls [270]
- WildNet taxon ID
- 879
- Alternate name(s)
- flying squirrel
squirrel flying phalanger
squirrel flying opposum
sugar squirrel - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
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=879
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
