Bibliography for Acrobates pygmaeus (Shaw, 1794)

• ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study.
• 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
• De Vis, C.W. 1887. On a new or rare vertebrate from the Herbert River, North Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 1129-1135 [22 Feb. 1887]
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Turner, V. 1984. Eucalyptus pollen in the diet of the feathertail glider Acrobates pygmaeus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae). Australian Wildlife Research 11: 77-81
• 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
• Woodside, D.P. 1995. Feathertail glider Acrobates pygmaeus. pp. 262-264 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

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