Species Hemibelideus lemuroides (Collett, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phalangista (Hemibelideus) lemuroides Collett, R. 1884. On some apparently new marsupials from Queensland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1884: 381-389 pls 29-32 [1 Oct. 1884] [385].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1884.8.19.2 ♀ cast of skull, spur between Gowry Creek and Herbert River, QLD; UZMO 686 ♂ skin & skull, spur between Gowry Creek and Herbert River, QLD.

  Type locality references:

  Lumholtz, C. 1884. Notes upon some mammals recently discovered in Queensland. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1884: 406-409.
• Pseudochirus (Hemibelideus) cervinus Longman, H.A. 1915. A new phalanger from north Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 3: 22-23 [22].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM J2016 ♂ adult, Atherton Tableland, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [28]

 

Generic Combinations

• Hemibelideus lemuroides (Collett, 1884).
• Pseudocheirus lemuroides (Collett, 1884).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Between Ingham and Daintree River.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, gregarious, montane, nocturnal.

 

General References

Crowe, O. & Hume, I.D. 1997. Morphology and function of the gastrointestinal tract of Australian folivorous possums. Australian Journal of Zoology 45: 357-368

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

Laurance, W.F. 1990. Effects of weather on marsupial folivore activity in a north Queensland upland tropical rainforest. Australian Mammalogy 13: 41-47

Laurance, W.F. & Gascon, C. 1997. How to creatively fragment a landscape. Conservation Biology 11: 577-579

Laurance, W.F. & Laurance, S.G.W. 1996. Response of five arboreal marsupials to recent selective logging in tropical Australia. Biotropica 28: 310-322

McKay, G.M., McQuade, L.R., Murray, J.D. & von Sturmer, S.R. 1984. Sex-chromosome mosaicism in the lemur like possum Hemibelideus lemuroides (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 37: 131-135

McQuade, L.R. 1984. Taxonomic relationship of the greater glider Petauroides volans and the Lemur-like possum Hemibelideus lemuroides. pp. 303-310 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

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

Trenery, M.P. & Werren, G.L. 1993. Possum assemblages in rainforest of Carbine uplands, NEQ, with special reference to Hemibelideus lemuroides. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34: 188

Wilson, R.F., Marsh, H. & Winter, J. 2007. Importance of canopy connectivity for home range and movements of the rainforest arboreal ringtail possum (Hemibelideus lemuroides). Wildlife Research 34: 177-184

Winter, J. 1991. Mammals. pp. 43-54 in Nix, H.A. & Switzer, M.A. (eds). Rainforest Animals: Atlas of vertebrates endemic to Australia's wet tropics. Canberra : Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service 111 pp. [Kowari]

Winter, J.W. 1984. Conservation studies of tropical rainforest possums. pp. 469-481 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Winter, J.W. & Atherton, R.G. 1984. Social group size in north Queensland ringtail possums of the genera Pseudocheirus and Hemibelideus. pp. 311-319 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Winter, J.W. & Goudberg, N.J. 1995. Lemuroid Ringtail Possum Hemibelideus lemuroides. pp. 238-239 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

 

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Lemuroid Ringtail Possum)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Oct-2010		29-Oct-2010	MOVED
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