Bibliography for ACROBATIDAE

• ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
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• Anonymous 1818. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs. Nouvelle edition presqu’entièrement refondue et considérarablement augmentée; avec des figures tirées des trois règnes de la nature. Paris : Deterville Vol. 25. [Date published 26 Dec. 1818]
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• Aplin, K.P. in Aplin, K.P. & Archer, M. 1987. Acrobatidae. xxii in Archer, M. (ed.). Possums and Opossums: studies in evolution. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons with the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2 vols lxxii 788 pp.
• Braithwaite, L.W., Binns, D.L. & Nowlan, R.D. 1988. The distribution of arboreal marsupials in relation to eucalypt forest types in the Eden (NSW) Woodchip Concession Area. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 363-373
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• Fleming, M.R. 1985. The thermal physiology of the feathertail glider, Acrobates pygmaeus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 667-681
• Fleming, M.R. & Frey, H. 1984. Aspects of the natural history of Feathertail gliders (Acrobates pygmaeus) in Victoria. pp. 403-408 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.
• Frey, H. & Fleming, M.R. 1984. Torpor and thermoregulatory behaviour in free-ranging feathertail gliders (Acrobates pygmaeus) (Marsupialia, Burramyidae) in Victoria. pp. 393-401 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.
• Gloger, C.W.L. 1841. Gemeinnütziges Hand- und Hilfsbuch der Naturgeschichte. Für gebildete leser aller Stände. Bd I. Breslau : Schulz & Co. xxxiv 495 pp. [Date published May 1841: publication date established from Thomas, O. 1895. An analysis of the mammalian generic names given in Dr. C.W.L. Gloger's 'Naturgeschichte' (1841). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 15: 189–193]
• Goldingay, R. & Kavanagh, R.P. 1995. Foraging behaviour and habitat use of the feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus) at Waratah Creek, New South Wales. Wildlife Research 22: 457-470
• Goldingay, R.L. & Kavanagh, R.P. 1988. Detectability of the feathertail glider, Acrobates pygmaeus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae), in relation to measured weather variables. Australian Mammalogy 11: 67-70
• Huang, C., Ward, S. & Lee, A.K. 1987. Comparison of the diets of the feathertail glider, Acrobates pygmaeus, and the eastern pygmy possum, Cercartetus nanus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae) in sympatry. Australian Mammalogy 10: 47-50
• Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 6: i-xii 1-122
• Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp.
• Johnson-Murray, J.L. 1987. The comparative myology of the gliding membranes of Acrobates, Petauroides and Petaurus contrasted with the cutaneous myology of Hemibelideus and Pseudocheirus (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) and with selected gliding Rodentia (Sciuridae and Anomaluridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 35: 101-113
• Jones, C.J. & Geiser, F. 1992. Prolonged daily torpor in the feathertail glider, Acrobates pygmaeus (Marsupialia: Acrobatidae). Journal of Zoology, London 227: 101-108
• Kirsch, J.A.W., Lapointe, F-J. & Springer, M.S. 1997. DNA-hybridisation studies of marsupials and their implications for metatherian classification. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 211-280
• Kirsch, J.A.W. & Calaby, J.H. 1977. The species of living marsupials: an annotated list. pp. 9-26 in Stonehouse, B. & Gilmore, D. (eds). The Biology of Marsupials. Baltimore : University Park Press.
• Lindenmayer, D.B. & Cunningham, R.B. 1997. Patterns of co-occurrence among marsupials in the forests of central Victoria, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 22: 340-346
• McCulloch, E.M. & Thompson, W.M. 1987. Forest raven takes feather-tailed glider. Australian Bird Watcher 12: 99
• McKay, G.M. 1988. Burramyidae. pp. 98-102 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.
• Parrott, M.L., Ward, S.J. & Taggart, D.A. 2005. Multiple paternity and communal maternal care in the feathertail glider, Acrobates pygmaeus. Australian Journal of Zoology 53: 79-85
• Rosenberg, H.I. & Rose, R. 1999. Volar adhesive pads of the feathertail glider, Acrobates pygmaeus (Marsupialia: Acrobatidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 77: 233-248
• Rothschild, W. 1892. Descriptions of two new mammals from New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1892: 545-546 [Dec. 1892]
• Rowley, I. 1989. Predation of feather-tailed glider by grey shrike-thrushes. Australian Bird Watcher 13: 126
• Shaw, G. 1794. Zoology of New Holland. London : J. Sowerby.
• Tate, G.H.H. 1938. New or little known marsupials: a new species of Phascogalinae, with notes upon Acrobates pulchellus Rothschild. Novitates Zoologicae 41: 58-60
• Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History). London : British Museum xiii 401 pp. 28 pls. [3 Nov. 1888]
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• Ward, S.J. 1990. Life history of the feathertail glider, Acrobates pygmaeus (Acrobatidae: Marsupialia) in southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 38: 503-517
• Ward, S.J. 2000. The efficiency of nestboxes versus spotlighting for detecting feathertail gliders. Wildlife Research 27: 75-79
• Ward, S.J. & Renfree, M.B. 1988. Reproduction in females of the feathertail glider Acrobates pygmaeus (Marsupialia). Journal of Zoology, London 216: 225-239
• Ward, S.J. & Renfree, M.B. 1988. Reproduction in males of the feathertail glider Acrobates pygmaeus (Marsupialia). Journal of Zoology, London 216: 241-251
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