Species Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Boddaert, 1785)
Common Ringtail Possum
Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Including Flinders and King Ils.
IBRA
NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Ecological Descriptors
Closed forest, florivore, folivore, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.
General References
Armati-Gulson, P. & Lowe, J. 1984. The development of the reproductive system of the common Ringtail Possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 7: 75-88
Augee, M.L., Smith, B. & Rose, S. 1996. Survival of wild and hand-reared ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) in bushland near Sydney. Wildlife Research 23: 99-108
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
Chilcott, M. & Hume, I.D. 1984. Digestion of Eucalyptus andrewsii foliage by the common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus. Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 605-613
Chilcott, M. & Hume, I.D. 1984. Nitrogen and ures metabolism and nitrogen requirements of the common ringtail possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus, fed Eucalyptus andrewsii foliage. Australian Journal of Zoology 32: 615-622
Chilcott, M.J. 1984. Coprophagy in the common Ringtail Possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 7: 107-110
Chilcott, M.J. & Hume, I.D. 1985. Coprophagy and selective retention of fluid digesta: their role in the nutrition of the common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 1-15
Cork, S.J. & Pahl, L. 1984. The possible influence of nutritional factors on diet and habitat selection by the ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus). pp. 269-276 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.
Crowe, O. & Hume, I.D. 1997. Morphology and function of the gastrointestinal tract of Australian folivorous possums. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 357-368
Ellis, M. & Jones, B. 1992. Observations of captive and wild western ringtail possums Pseudocheirus occidentalis. Western Australian Naturalist 19: 1-10
Foley, W.J. 1992. Nitrogen and energy retention and acid-base status of the common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus): evidence of the effects of absorbed allelochemicals. Physiological Zoology 65: 403-421
Gipps, J.M. & Sanson, G.D. 1984. Mastication and digestion in Pseudocheirus. pp. 237-246 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.
How, R.A., Barnett, J.L., Bradley, A.J., Humphreys, W.P. & Martin, R. 1984. The population biology of Pseudocheirus peregrinus in a Leptospermum laevigatum thicket. pp. 261-268 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.
Hughes, R.L., Thomson, J.A. & Owen, W.H. 1965. Reproduction in natural population of the Australian ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) in Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 383-406
Hume, I.D., Bladon, R.V. & Soran, N. 1996. Seasonal changes in digestive performance of common ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) fed Eucalyptus foliage. Australian Journal of Zoology 44: 327-336
Hume, I.D., Foley, W.J. & Chilcott, M.J. 1984. Physiological mechanisms of foliage digestion in greater glider and ringtail possum (Marsupialia: Pseudocheiridae). pp. 247-251 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.
Hume, I.D., Foley, W.J. & Chilcott, M.J. 1984. Physiological mechanisms of foliage digestion in the greater glider and ringtail possum. pp. 247-251 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.
Inions, G.B., Tanton, M.T. & Davey, S.M. 1989. Effect of fire on the availability of hollows in trees used by the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr, 1792, and the ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus Boddaert, 1785. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 449-458
Jones, B. & Hillcox, S. 1995. A survey of the possums Trichosurus vulpecula and Pseudocheirus occidentalis and their habitats in forest at Ludlow, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 1995: 139-150
Jones, B.A., How, R.A. & Kitchener, D.J. 1994. A field study of Pseudocheirus occidentalis (Marsupialia : Petauridae). I. distribution and habitat. Wildlife Research 21: 175-187
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
Lunney, D. 1987. Effects of logging, fire and drought on possums and gliders in the coastal forests near Bega, NSW. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 263-274
Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp. (as P. occidentalis)
McArthur, C. & Sanson, G.D. 1991. Effects of tannins in the common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus), a specialised marsupial folivore. Journal of Zoology, London 225: 233-251
McKay, G.M. & Ong, P. 1995. Common Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus. pp. 254-256 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.
McLean, S., Foley, W.J., Davies, N.W., Brandon, S., Duo, Li & Blackman, A.J. 1993. Metabolic fate of dietary terpines from Eucalyptus radiata in common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus). Journal of Chemical Ecology 19: 1625-1644
Munks, S. 1995. The breeding biology of Pseudocheirus peregrinus viverrinus on Flinders Island, Bass Strait. Wildlife Research 22: 521-534
Munks, S.A., Green, B., Newgrain, K. 1991. Milk composition in the common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Petauridae: Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 403-416
Munks, S.A. & Green, B. 1995. Energy allocation for reproduction in a marsupial arboreal folivore, the common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus). Oecologia (Berlin) 101: 94-104
Munks, S.A. & Green, B. 1997. Milk consumption and growth in a marsupial arboreal folivore, the common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus. Physiological Zoology 70: 691-700
Pahl, L. 1984. Diet preferences, diet composition and population density of the ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus cooki) in several plant communities in southern Victoria. pp. 253-260 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.
Pahl, L.I. 1987. Feeding behaviour and diet of the common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus, in Eucalyptus woodlands and Leptospermum thickets in southern Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 35: 487-506
Pahl, L.I. 1987. Survival, age determination and population age structure of the common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus, in a Eucalyptus woodland and a Leptospermum thicket in southern Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 35: 625-639
Pahl, L.I. & Lee, A.K. 1988. Reproductive traits of two populations of the common ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus peregrinus, in Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 36: 83-97
Sakaguchi, E. & Hume, I.D. 1990. Digesta retention and fibre digestion in brushtail possums, ringtail possums and rabbits. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 96: 351-354
Springer, M., McKay, G., Aplin, K. & Kirsch, J. 1992. Relations, among ringtail possums (Marsupialia: Pseudocheiridae) based on DNA-DNA hybridisation. Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 423-435
Thomson, J.A. & Owen, W.H. 1964. A field study of the Australian ringtail possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Ecological Monographs 34: 27-52
Common Name References
ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Common Ringtail Possum)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Oct-2010 | 29-Oct-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |