Suborder PHALANGERIDA

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Superfamily BURRAMYOIDEA

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Family BURRAMYIDAE

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oCTOBER 2010 - Updated by Stephen M. Jackson, c/- Queensland Museum, Brisbane, following Van Dyck & Strahan (2008)

31 December 1998 - G.M. McKay (1988); updated by Barry J. Richardson (1999), Centre for Biostructural and Biomolecular Research, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia

Introduction

The Burramyidae includes several small, mouse-sized possums with bunodont molars. The four species of Cercartetus, all of which are arboreal insectivores or nectar-feeders, are the least specialized members of the family. Burramys, which has large plagiaulacoid premolars, is the only possum specialized for feeding on seeds

The pygmy possums are considered to be a distinct family, separate from other phalangeroid lineages, on the basis of serology (Kirsch 1977). Kirsch included Acrobates in this lineage, though later, he supported morphological studies in placing it in a separate family on the basis of DNA hybridisation studies (Edwards & Westerman 1995; Kirsch et al. 1997). The Burramyidae are noteworthy for their generalized morphology and apparently primitive chromosomal constitution (Hayman & Martin 1974; Kirsch & Calaby 1977).

At the generic level, four subgenera of Dromicia (= Cercartetus) have been proposed and more recently, Kirsch (1977) accepted that the genus may indeed prove to be polyphyletic. Wakefield (1963) revised this genus and his arrangement is followed in this work.

General References

Baverstock, P.R. 1984. The molecular relationships of Australasian possums and gliders. pp. 1-8 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Edwards, D. & Westerman, M. 1995. The molecular relationships of possum and glider families as revealed by DNA-DNA hybridisations. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 231-240 [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84]

Hayman, D.L. & Martin, P.G. 1974. Mammalia 1: Monotremata and Marsupialia. Animal Cytogenetics. Chordata. Berlin : Gebrüder Borntraeger Vol. 4 110 pp.

Kirsch, J.A.W. 1977. The comparative serology of Marsupialia, and a classification of marsupials. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 52: 1-152

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.

Turner, V. & McKay, G.M. 1989. Burramyidae. pp. 652-664 in Walton, D.W. & Richardson, B.J. (eds). Fauna of Australia. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1B 827 pp.

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963]

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Genus Burramys Broom, 1896

Burramys Broom, R. 1896. On a small fossil marsupial with large grooved premolars. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 10: 563-567 [31 Jan.1896] [563].
Type species:
Burramys parvus Broom, 1896 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Alpine and subalpine areas of Kosciusko National Park, Bogong High Plains and Mt Hotham.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

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Species Burramys parvus Broom, 1896

CAVS: 1156

Mountain Pygmy-possum

Burramys parvus Broom, R. 1896. On a small fossil marsupial with large grooved premolars. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 10: 563-567 [31 Jan.1896] [563].
Type data:

Syntype(s) AM F3984 mandibular fragment, Wombeyan Caves, near Taralga, NSW; AM F45777 maxillary fragment, Wombeyan Caves, near Taralga, NSW; AM F45778 mandibular fragment, Wombeyan Caves, near Taralga, NSW.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Alpine and subalpine areas of Kosciusko National Park, Bogong High Plains and Mt Hotham.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Alpine, arthropod-feeder, granivore, low shrubland, montane, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Broome, L.S. 1995. Mountain Pygmy-possum Burramys parvus. pp. 208-210 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Broome, L.S. & Geiser, F. 1995. Hibernation in free-living mountain pygmy-possums, Burramys parvus (Marsupialia, Burramyidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 373-379

Broome, L.S. & Mansergh, I.M. 1989. The mountain pygmy possum Burramys parvus (Broom) an alpine endemic. pp. 241-264 in Good, R. (ed.). The scientific significance of the Australian Alps. Canberra : Australian Alps National Parks Liaison Committee.

Caughley, J. 1986. Distribution and abundance of the mountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus Broom, in the Kosciusko National Park. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 507-516

Caughley, J. 1986. Distribution and abundance of the pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus Broom, in Kosciusko National Park. Australian Wildlife Research 13: 507-516

Dimpel, H. & Calaby, J.H. 1972. Further observations on the mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus). Victorian Naturalist 89: 101-106

Dixon, J.M. 1971. Burramys parvus Broom (Marsupialia) from Falls Creek area of the Bogong High Plains, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 88: 133-138

Fleming, M.R. 1985. The thermal physiology of the Mountain Pygmy-possum Burramys parvus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae). Australian Mammalogy 8: 79-91

Geiser, F. & Broome, L.S. 1991. Hibernation in the mountain pygmy possum Burramys parvus (Marsupialia). Journal of Zoology, London 223: 593-602

Geiser, F. & Broome, L.S. 1993. The effect of temperature on the pattern of torpor in a marsupial hibernator. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 163: 133-137

Gullan, P. & Norris, K. 1984. The habitat of Burramys parvus (Broom) in Victoria. pp. 417-421 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Gunson, M.M., Sharman, G.B. & Thomson, J.A. 1968. The affinities of Burramys (Marsupialia: Phalangeroidea) as revealed by a study of its chromosomes. Australian Journal of Science 31: 40-41

Heinze, D., Broome, L. & Mansergh, I. 2004. A review of the ecology and conservation of the mountain pygmy-possum Burramys parvus Broom 1896. pp. 254-267 in Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. (eds). The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons.

Heinze, D. & Williams, L. 1998. The discovery of the mountain pygmy-possum Burramys parvus on Mount Buller, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 115: 132-134

Hunter, S. 1992. Attempts at breeding the mountain pygmy possum at Healesville sanctuary. Thylacinus, Journal of the Australian Society of Zookeepers 17(4): 2-4

Kerle, J.A. 1984. The behaviour of Burramys parvus Broom (Marsupialia) in captivity. Mammalia 48: 317-325

Körtner, G. & Geiser, F. 1995. Effect of photoperiod and ambient-temperature on activity patterns and body weight cycles of mountain pygmy-possums, Burramys parvus (Marsupialia). Journal of Zoology, London 235: 311-322

Körtner, G. & Geiser, F. 1998. Ecology of natural hibernation in the marsupial mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus). Oecologia (Berlin) 113: 170=178

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

Mansergh, I. 1984. Ecological studies and conservation of Burramys parvus. pp. 545-552 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Mansergh, I. 1984. The mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus (Broom)): a review. pp. 413-416 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Mansergh, I. 1984. The Mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus), (Broom): a review. pp. 413-416 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Mansergh, I., Baxter, B., Scotts, D., Brady, T. & Jolley, D. 1990. Diet of the mountain pygmy-possum (Marsupialia: Burramyidae) and other small mammals in the alpine environment at Mt Higginbotham, Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 13: 167-177

Mansergh, I. & Broome, L. 1994. The mountain pygmy possum of the Australian Alps. Kensington : New South Wales University Press 114 pp.

Mansergh, I. & Scotts, D. 1990. Aspects of the life history and breeding biology of the mountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus, (Marsupialia: Burramyidae) in alpine Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 13: 179-191

Mansergh, I.M. 1984. Ecological studies and conservation of Burramys parvus. pp. 545-552 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Mansergh, I.M. & Scotts, D.J. 1986. Winter occurrence of the mountain pygmy-possum Burramys parvus (Broom) (Marsupialia: Burramyidae), on Mt Higginbotham, Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 9: 35-42

Mansergh, I.M. & Walsh, N.G. 1983. Observations on the mountain pygmy possum, Burramys parvus, on Mt Higginbotham, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 100: 106-115

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

O'Brien, K.R. & Gowans, R.M. 1985. The distribution of boulder streams and Podocarpus heath, components of the preferred habitat of Burramys parvus, in alpine and sub-alpine areas of eastern Victoria. Arthur Rylah Inst. Envir. Res. Tech. Rep. Ser. No 8. Dept of Conserv., Forests and Lands, Victoria : Melbourne. 22 pp.

O'Reilly, H.M., Mansergh, I. & Willig, R. 1986. Daily pattern of activity of a captive mountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus (Broom) (Marsupialia: Burramyidae). Australian Mammalogy 9: 53-55

Slater, G. 1987. Maintaining the mountain pygmy-possum Burramys parvus in captivity at Healesville Sanctuary. Thylacinus, Journal of the Australian Society of Zookeepers 12(4): 2-5

Smith, A.P. & Broome, L. 1992. The effects of season, sex and habitat on the diet of the mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus). Wildlife Research 19: 755-768

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Mountain Pygmy-possum)

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Genus Cercartetus Gloger, 1841

Cercartetus Gloger, C.W.L. 1841. Gemeinnütziges Hand- und Hilfsbuch der Naturgeschichte. Für gebildete Leser aller Stände, besonders für die reifere Jugend und ihre Lehrer. Erster Band, enthaltend die erste Hälfte der Naturgeschichte der Thiere, nebst erfahrungsmässigen Andeutungen über den gegenwärtigen Zustand und Erfolg des Unterrichts in dieser Wissenschaft, namentlich auf Gymnasien, und Vorrschlägen über fernere Einrichtung desselben im Verhaltnisse zu seinem Wirklichen Zwecke. Hefte 1–5. Breslau : A. Schulz & Comp. 400 pp. [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 [189]] [85] [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] incorrectly cites Didelphis peregrinus Boddaert, 1785 as type species].
Type species:
Phalangista nana Desmarest, 1818 by monotypy.
Secondary source:
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].
Dromicia Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [401].
Type species:
Phalangista nana Desmarest, 1818 by monotypy (cited as Geoffroy, 1803).
Eudromicia Mjöberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. II. Mammals from Queensland. 2. On a new genus and species of marsupial. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(2): 13-20 [16 Jan. 1916] [13] [Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 incorrectly assigned E. macrura Mjöberg, 1916 as haplotype; Mjöberg (1916) included three species in Eudromicia without designating or indicating a type species].
Type species:
Eudromicia macrura Mjöberg, 1916 by subsequent designation, see Matschie, P. 1916. Die Verbreitung der Beuteltiere auf NeuGuinea mit einigen Bemerkungen über ihre Einteilung in Untergattungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8: 259-308 +map [Date published June 1916].
Secondary source:
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.
Dromiciola Matschie, P. 1916. Die Verbreitung der Beuteltiere auf NeuGuinea mit einigen Bemerkungen über ihre Einteilung in Untergattungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8: 259-308 +map [Date published June 1916] [260] [first used as subgenus of Dromicia Gray, 1841].
Type species:
Dromicia lepida Thomas, 1888 by original designation.
Dromiciella Matschie, P. 1916. Die Verbreitung der Beuteltiere auf NeuGuinea mit einigen Bemerkungen über ihre Einteilung in Untergattungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8: 259-308 +map [Date published June 1916] [260] [first used as subgenus of Dromicia Gray, 1841].
Type species:
Dromicia concinna Gould, 1845 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963] [114-115]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), King (KIN), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Kanmantoo (KAN) ; SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls.

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Species Cercartetus caudatus (Milne-Edwards, 1877)

CAVS: 1153

Long-tailed Pygmy Possum

Dromicia caudata Milne Edwards, A. 1877. Note sur quelques mammifères nouveaux provenant de la Nouvelle-Guinée. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 85: 1079-1081 [1079].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 159 ♀ skin & skull, Arfak Mts, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

Generic Combinations

Eudromicia caudata (Milne-Edwards, 1877).
Cercartetus caudatus (Milne-Edwards, 1877).

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963] [115]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, insectivorous, mellivore, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually solitary.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Long-tailed Pygmy Possum)

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Subspecies Cercartetus caudatus macrurus (Mjöberg, 1916)

CAVS: 1742

Long-tailed Pygmy Possum

Eudromicia macrura Mjöberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. II. Mammals from Queensland. 2. On a new genus and species of marsupial. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(2): 13-20 [16 Jan. 1916] [14].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Cedar Creek, Atherton, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Between Townsville and Cooktown.

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, insectivorous, mellivore, predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Insectivore.

General References

Atherton, R.G. & Haffenden, A.T. 1982. Observations on the reproduction and growth of the long-tailed pygmy possum, Cercartetus caudatus (Marsupialia, Burramyidae), in captivity. Australian Mammalogy 5: 253-259

Atherton, R.G. & Haffenden, A.T. 1995. Long-tailed Pygmy-possum Cercartetus caudatus. pp. 211-212 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Dwyer, P.D. 1977. Notes on Antechinus and Cercartetus (Marsupialia) in the New Guinea Highlands. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 88: 69-73

Smith, A.P. 1986. Stomach contents of the Long-tailed Pygmy-possum, Cercartetus caudatus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae). Australian Mammalogy 9: 135-137

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.

Ziegler, A.C. 1977. Evolution of New Guinea's marsupial fauna in response to a forested environment. pp. 117-138 in Stonehouse, B. & Gilmore, D. (eds). The Biology of Marsupials. London : Macmillan.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Long-tailed Pygmy Possum)

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Species Cercartetus concinnus (Gould, 1845)

CAVS: 1151

Western Pygmy-possum

Dromicia concinna Gould, J. 1845. [untitled abstract]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1845: 2 [May 1845].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1844.7.9.12 ♂, Swan River, WA.
Phalangista (Dromicia) neillii Waterhouse, G.R. 1846. A Natural History of the Mammalia. Vol. 1, containing the order Marsupiata or pouched animals with 22 illustrations engraved on steel, and 18 engravings on wood. London : Baillière. [315].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1860.1.5.27 ♂ adult skull only, King George Sound, WA.
Cercartetus concinnus minor Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963] [100].
Type data:
Holotype NMV C7802 ♂ skin & skull, Nurcoung 16 km NW of Natimuk, VIC.
Secondary source:
Dixon, J.M. 1970. Catalogue of mammal types (Class Mammalia) in the National Museum of Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 31: 105-114.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [105]

Generic Combinations

Cercartetus concinnus (Gould, 1845).

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963] [100]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kangaroo Is., in W plateau, only extreme SW corner.

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Insectivorous, low open woodland.

General References

Geiser, F. 1987. Hibernation and daily torpor in two pygmy possums (Cercartetus spp., Marsupialia). Physiological Zoology 60: 93-102

Kemp, L.F. & Carthew, S.M. 2004. Nest site selection by the western pygmy-possum Cercartetus concinnus. pp. 237-245 in Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. (eds). The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons.

Landwehr, G.G., Richardson, K.C. & Wooller, R.D. 1990. Sugar preferences of honey possums, Tarsipes rostratus (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae) and western pygmy possums, Cercatetus concinnus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae). Australian Mammalogy 13: 5-10

Smith, M.J. 1995. Western Pygmy-possum Cercartetus concinnus. pp. 213-214 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Tyndale-Biscoe, C.H. 1984. Reproductive physiology of possums and gliders. pp. 79-87 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963]

Ward, S.J. 1990. Life history of the western pygmy-possum, Cercartetus concinnus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae), with notes on reproduction of some other small possum species. Australian Journal of Zoology 38: 423-438

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Western Pygmy-possum)

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Species Cercartetus lepidus (Thomas, 1888)

CAVS: 1152

Little Pygmy-possum

Dromicia lepida 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] [142].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1852.1.15.11 ♀ adult in alcohol with skull extracted, TAS.

Generic Combinations

Eudromicia lepidus (Thomas, 1888).
Cercartetus lepidus (Thomas, 1888).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Kangaroo Is., on mainland restricted to Renmark, Mildura region.

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, coastal, open forest, open scrub, predator, tall open forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Diet also includes small lizards.

General References

Cadzow, B. & Carthew, S.M. 2004. The importance of two species of Banksia in the diet of the western pygmy-possum Cercartetus concinnus and the little pygmy-possum Cercartetus lepidus in South Australia. pp. 246-253 in Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. (eds). The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons.

Conole, L.E. 1996. The little pygmy-possum Cercartetus lepidus; an addition to the fauna of southwest-Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 113: 20-24

Green, R.H. 1980. The little pygmy-possum, Cercatetus lepidus in Tasmania. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 68: 1-12

Green, R.H. 1995. Little Pygmy-possum Cercartetus lepidus. pp. 215-216 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Smith, M.J. 1984. Observations on the reproductive system and paracloacal glands of Cercartetus lepidus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae). Australian Mammalogy 7: 175-178

Ward, S.J. 1992. Life history of the little pygmy-possum, Cercartetus lepidus (Marsupialia: Burrymidae), in the Big Desert, Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 43-55

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Little Pygmy-possum)

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Species Cercartetus nanus (Desmarest, 1818)

CAVS: 1150

Eastern Pygmy-possum

Generic Combinations

Cercartetus nanus (Desmarest, 1818).

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963] [103-104, 115]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), 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), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, closed forest, closed heath, mellivore, open forest, predator, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Mainly solitary.

General References

Bladon, R.V., Dickman, C.R. & Hume, I.D. 2002. Effects of habitat fragmentation on the demography, movements and social organisation of the eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus) in northern New South Wales. Wildlife Research 29: 105-116

Bowen, M. & Goldingay, R.L. 2000. Distribution and status of the eastern pygmy possum (Cercartetus nanus) in New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 21: 153-164

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

Carthew, S.M. 1994. Foraging behaviour of marsupial pollinators in a population of Banksia spinulosa. Oikos 69: 133-139

Dickman, C.R. & Happold, D.C.D. 1988. The eastern pygmy-possum, Cercartetus nanus in the Australian Capital Territory. Australian Mammalogy 11: 77-79

Geiser, F. 1993. Hibernation in the eastern pygmy possum, Cercartetus nanus (Marsupialia : Burramyidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 67-75

Goldingay, R.L., Carthew, S.M. & Whelan, R.J. 1991. The importance of non-flying mammals in pollination. Oikos 61: 79-87

Harris, J.M. 2005. Annotated records of the eastern pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus from the Victorian Naturalist 1884-2004. Victorian Naturalist 122: 146-150

Harris, J.M., Gynther, I.C., Eyre, T.J., Goldingay, R.L. & Mathieson 2007. Distribution, habitat and conservation of the Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus in Queensland. The Australian Zoologist 34(2): 209-221

Harris, J.M. & Goldingay, R.L. 2005. Detection of the eastern pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus at Barren Grounds Nature Reserve, New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 27: 85-88

Harris, J.M. & Goldingay, R.L. 2005. Distribution, habitat and conservation of the eastern pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus in Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 27: 185-210

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

Laidlaw, W.S. & Wilson, B.A. 1996. The home range and habitat utilisation of Cercartetus nanus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae) in coastal heathland, Anglesea, Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 19: 63-68

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

McKay, G.M. 1984. Cytogenetic relationships of possums and gliders. pp. 9-16 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Shelley, D. 1998. Survey of vertebrate fauna and habitats in a cypress pine-ironbark forest in central-west New South Wales. The Australian Zoologist 30: 426-436

Turner, V. 1984. Banksia pollen as a source of protein in the diet of two Australian marsupials Cercartetus nanus and Tarsipes rostratus. Oikos 43: 53-61

Turner, V. & Ward, S.J. 1995. Eastern Pygmy-possum Cercartetus nanus. pp. 217-218 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

van Tets, I.G. 1998. Can flower-feeding marsupials meet their nitrogen requirements on pollen in the field? Australian Mammalogy 20: 383-390

van Tets, I.G. & Whelan, R.J. 1997. Banksia pollen in the diet of Australian mammals. Ecography 20: 499-505

Ward, S.J. 1990. Life history of the eastern pygmy-possum, Cercartetus nanus (Burramyidae: Marsupialia) in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 38: 287-304

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Eastern Pygmy-possum)

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Subspecies Cercartetus nanus nanus (Desmarest, 1818)

CAVS: 1746

Phalangista nana 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] [477] [cited by Desmarest as P. nana Geoffroy; as Geoffroy's (1803) manuscript was never published, the name must be dated from Desmarest although several earlier authors e.g. Gray (1841) cited names from the Geoffroy ms].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 160 ♂ juv., Maria Is., TAS.
Phalangista gliriformis Bell, T. 1828. Description of a new species of Phalangista. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16: 121-127 [121].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1979.2190 ♀ adult skin & skull, TAS (as Australia).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, closed forest, closed heath, mellivore, open forest, predator, woodland.

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Subspecies Cercartetus nanus unicolor (Krefft, 1863)

CAVS: 1745

Dromicia unicolor Krefft, G. 1863. Description of a new species of the genus Dromicia discovered in the neighbourhood of Sydney. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 49-50 [29 Apr. 1863] [49].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, St Leonards, Sydney, NSW.
Dromicia britta Jones, F.W. 1925. A new South Australian dormouse opossum. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 49: 96-98 [24 Dec. 1925] [97].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Millicent, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Wakefield, N.A. 1963. The Australian pigmy-possums. Victorian Naturalist 80: 99-116 [8 Aug. 1963]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Qld.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, closed forest, closed heath, mellivore, open forest, predator, woodland.

General References

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Superfamily PETAUROIDEA

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Family ACROBATIDAE

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October 2010 - Updated by Stephen M. Jackson, c/- Queensland Museum, Brisbane, following Van Dyck & Strahan (2008)

31 December 1998 - B.J. Richardson, Centre for Biostructural and Biomolecular Research, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia

Introduction

Acrobates and the related non-volant genus Distoechurus were previously placed in the Burramyidae (for example, Kirsch & Calaby 1977). As a result of morphological studies (Aplin & Archer 1987) and DNA hybridisation studies (Edwards & Westerman 1995; Kirsch et al. 1997), they are now placed in a separate family, the Acrobatidae (Aplin 1987). Acrobates has a narrow patagial fold between fore- and hind limbs and lateral fringes of stiff hair on the tail as adaptations for gliding, apparently convergent on similar adaptations seen in the Petauridae. The second genus in the family, Distoechurus, found only in New Guinea, has the fringed tail, but lacks the patagium. The material presented in this chapter is a revised version of that for Acrobates presented by G.M. McKay in the First Edition of the Zological Catalogue.

General References

Aplin, K.P. & Archer, M. 1987. Recent advances in marsupial systematics with a new syncretic classification. pp. xv-lxxii 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.

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.

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

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Genus Acrobates Desmarest, 1818

Acrobates 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] [405].
Type species:
Didelphis pygmaea Shaw, 1794 by monotypy.
Ascobates Anon. 1839. [No title]. 454 in Knight, C. (ed.). Penny Cyclopaedia. London : Publisher unknown Vol. 14. [454] [incorrect subsequent spelling for Acrobates].
Cercoptenus 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] [85].
Type species:
Didelphis pygmaea Shaw, 1793 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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] [136]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Acrobates frontalis De Vis, 1887

Dromicia frontalis 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] [1134].
Type data:
Syntype(s) QM J568-70 juveniles, vicinity of Herberton, QLD.

Introduction

Formally recognised by Van Dyke et al. (2013).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [122] (discussion on taxonomic history)

Van Dyck, Gynther, I. & Baker, A. 2013. Field companion to the Mammals of Australia. New Holland Publishers 573 pp. [25, 86]

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Species Acrobates pygmaeus (Shaw, 1794)

CAVS: 1147

Feathertail Glider

Didelphis pygmaea Shaw, G. 1794. Zoology of New Holland. London : J. Sowerby. [5].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1883.3.17.1 ♂, vicinity of Sydney, NSW (as New South Wales).
Type locality references:
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.
Acrobates pulchellus Rothschild, W. 1892. Descriptions of two new mammals from New Guinea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1892: 545-546 [Dec. 1892] [546] [considered by Tate, G.H.H. 1938. New or little known marsupials: a new species of Phascogalinae, with notes upon Acrobates pulchellus Rothschild. Novit. Zool. 41: 58–60 to have been based on a pet animal].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1939.2988 adult skin & skull, not known; said to be from one of the small islands in northern Dutch New Guinea.
Type locality references:
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.
Secondary source:
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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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. [99] (based on Tate, G.H.H. 1938. New or little known marsupials: a new species of Phascogalinae, with notes upon Acrobates pulchellus Rothschild. Novit. Zool. 41: 58–60)

Generic Combinations

Acrobates pygmaeus (Shaw, 1794).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, glider, gregarious, mellivore, open forest, predator, sap-feeder, subtropical, tree holes, woodland.

General References

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

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

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

Rowley, I. 1989. Predation of feather-tailed glider by grey shrike-thrushes. Australian Bird Watcher 13: 126

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.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Feathertail Glider)

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Family PETAURIDAE

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31 December 1998 - G.M. McKay (1988); updated by Barry J. Richardson (1999), Centre for Biostructural and Biomolecular Research, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia

Introduction

This family, as recognized by Kirsch & Calaby (1977), consists of several separate lineages which are variously treated as subfamilies (Kirsch, 1977; Kirsch et al. 1997). The first group consists of Petaurus, arboreal gliders with a patagial fold extending from manus to pes, and may include Gymnobelideus which lacks the patagium but otherwise closely resembles the smaller members of the former genus. The second group, containing Dactylopsila and Dactylonax (which is considered here to be generically distinct), is distinguished by enlarged procumbent upper incisors and an elongated manal digit IV. (Dactylonax occurs only in New Guinea). The remaining genera, characterized by selenodont molars, forcipate (though weakly so in some species) manus and prehensile tails with either a ventral friction pad or a terminal callosity, are primarily arboreal folivores. Within this group, Petauroides has a well-developed patagium extending from the elbow to the tarsus and the closely related Hemibelideus has a vestigial patagial fold first reported by Cairn & Grant (1890) but ignored by later authors.

Tate (1945a, 1945b) reviewed the members of this family and produced an arrangement that differs markedly at the generic and specific level from that of Iredale & Troughton (1934). More recently, Ride (1970) and Kirsch & Calaby (1977) published arrangements which differ not only from Tate's, but from each other and the systematics and taxonomy of this family are still uncertain (Murray et al. 1980; McKay 1982; Archer 1984; Baverstock et al. 1990; Edwards & Westerman 1992; Springer et al. 1994; Kirsch et al. 1997).This work generally follows Iredale & Troughton's (1934) generic arrangement.

At the species group level further confusion exists. Ride (1970) included several formerly recognized species under Pseudocheirus peregrinus. Many distinct differences occur within this "species group" (Murray et al. 1980) and a taxonomic rearrangement is forthcoming (McKay, unpublished data). Since the proposed rearrangement does not parallel the species and subspecies arrangements of either Iredale & Troughton (1934) or Tate (1945a) the available species group names are included within Pseudocheirus under Ride's (1970) species names.

General References

Cairn, E.J. & Grant, R. 1890. Report of a collecting trip to north-eastern Queensland during April to September, 1889. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 27-31

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

Kirsch, J.A.W. 1977. The comparative serology of Marsupialia, and a classification of marsupials. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 52: 1-152

McKay, G.M. 1982. Nomenclature of the gliding possum genera Petaurus and Petauroides (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 37-39

McKay, G.M. 1989. Family Petauridae. pp. 665-678 in Walton, D.W. & Richardson, B.J. (eds). Fauna of Australia. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1B 827 pp.

Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls.

Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 54 The marsupial genus Pseudocheirus and its subgenera. American Museum Novitates 1287: 1-30 [11 June 1945]

Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 55 Notes on the squirrel-like and mouse-like possums (Marsupialia). American Museum Novitates 1305: 1-12 [29 Dec. 1945]

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Subfamily DACTYLOPSILINAE

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Genus Dactylopsila Gray, 1858

Dactylopsila Gray, J.E. 1858. List of species of Mammalia sent from the Aru Islands by Mr A.R. Wallace to the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 106-113 pls 63-64 [Date published 27/Apr/1858: publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [440]] [109].
Type species:
Dactylopsila trivirgata Gray, 1858 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya including offshore islands.

IBRA

Distribution References

Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls.

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Species Dactylopsila trivirgata Gray, 1858

CAVS: 1144

Dactylopsila trivirgata Gray, J.E. 1858. List of species of Mammalia sent from the Aru Islands by Mr A.R. Wallace to the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 106-113 pls 63-64 [Date published 27/Apr/1858: publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [440]] [111].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1858.2.20.5 ♀ adult skin & skull, Aru Ils, Indonesia.

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls. [17] (also for extralimital synonymy)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, predator, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Dietpredominantly insects but may include leaves, fruit, small vertebrates, honey.

General References

Handasyde, K. 2000. Striped possums: the bold and the beautiful. Nature Australia 28(9): 27-31

Handasyde, K.A. & Martin, R.W. 1996. Field observations on the common striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) in north Queensland. Wildlife Research 23: 755-766

Rawlins, D.R. & Handasyde, K.A. 2002. The feeding ecology of the striped possum, Dactylopsila trivirgata (Marsupialia: Petauridae) in far north Queensland, Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 257: 195-206

Smith, A. 1982. Is the striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata; Marsupialia, Petauridae) an arboreal anteater? Australian Mammalogy 5: 229-234

Van Dyck, S.M. 1995. Striped Possum Dactylopsila trivirgata. pp. 222-223 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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Subspecies Dactylopsila trivirgata picata Thomas, 1908

CAVS: 1747

Striped Possum

Dactylopsila picata Thomas, O. 1908. The species of the genus Dactylopsila. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 1: 122-124 [Jan. 1908] [123].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1866.4.23.1 ♀ adult, Somerset (as Port Albany), Cape York, QLD.
Dactylopsila trivirgata infumata Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 55 Notes on the squirrel-like and mouse-like possums (Marsupialia). American Museum Novitates 1305: 1-12 [29 Dec. 1945] [4].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 107203 ♂ adult skin & skull, Lake Barrine, near Cairns, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From Townsville north.

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, insectivorous, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, predator, woodland.

General References

Abensperg-Traun, M. & Steven, D. 1997. Ant- and termite-eating in Australian mammals and lizards: A comparison. Australian Journal of Ecology 22: 9-17

Smith, A. 1982. Is the striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata; Marsupialia, Petauridae) an arboreal anteater? Australian Mammalogy 5: 229-234

Common Name References

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

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Genus Gymnobelideus McCoy, 1867

Gymnobelideus M'Coy, F. 1867. On a new genus of Phalanger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20: 287-288 [1 Oct. 1867] [287].
Type species:
Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy, 1867 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

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Species Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy, 1867

CAVS: 1141

Leadbeater's Possum

Gymnobelideus leadbeateri M'Coy, F. 1867. On a new genus of Phalanger. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 20: 287-288 [1 Oct. 1867] [287].
Type data:
Lectotype NMV C4380 ♂, Bass River, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Central highlands only.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, crepuscular, gregarious, insectivorous, montane, nocturnal, predator, tall open forest.

Extra Ecological Information

Also feeds on manna and gums, restricted to Mountain Ash forests.

General References

Edwards, D. & Westerman, M. 1992. DNA-DNA hybridisation and the position of Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy) in the family Petauridae (Marsupialia: Diprotodontia). Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 563-571

Harley, D.K.P. 2005. The life history and conservation of Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) in lowland swamp forest. Unpublished PhD. Thesis. Melbourne: Monash University.

Jelinek, A., Cameron, D., Belcher, C. & Turner, L. 1995. New perspectives on the ecology of Lake Mountain : the discovery of Leadbeater's possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy in sub-alpine woodland. Victorian Naturalist 112: 112-115

Lindenmayer, D. 1996. Wildlife and woodchips: Leadbeater's possum - A test case for sustainable forestry. Sydney : Universitry of New South Wales Press.

Lindenmayer, D.B., Cunningham, R.B., Tanton, M.T., Nix, H.A. & Smith, A.P. 1991. The conservation of arboreal marsupials in the montane ash forests of the central highlands of Victoria, south-east Australia: III. The habitat requirements of Leadbeater's possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri and models of the diversity and abundance of arboreal marsupials. Biological Conservation 56: 295-315

Lindenmayer, D.B., Cunningham, R.B., Tanton, M.T. & Smith, A.P. 1990. The conservation of arboreal marsupials in the montane ash forests of the central highlands of Victoria, south-east Australia: II. The loss of trees with hollows and its implications for the conservation of Leadbeater's possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Biological Conservation 54: 133-145

Lindenmayer, D.B., Cunningham, R.B. & Donnelly, C.F. 1994. The conservation of arboreal marsupials in the montane ash forests of the central highlands of Victoria, southeastern Australia: VI. Tests of the performance of models of nest tree and habitat requirements of arboreal marsupials. Biological Conservation 70: 143-147

Lindenmayer, D.B., Lacy, R.C., Thomas, V.C. & Clark, T.W. 1993. Predictions of the impacts of changes in population size and environmental variability in Leadbeater's possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy (Marsupialia : Petauridae) using population viability analysis : an application of the computer program VORTEX. Wildlife Research 20: 67-86

Lindenmayer, D.B., Nix, H.A., McMahon, J.P., Hutchinson, M.F. & Tanton, M.T. 1991. The conservation of Leadbeater's possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri (McCoy): a case study of the use of bioclimatic modelling. Journal of Biogeography 18: 371-383

Lindenmayer, D.B., Nix, H.A., McMahon, J.P. & Hutchinson, M.F. 1990. Bioclimatical modelling and wildlife conservation and management - a case study on Leadbeater's possum. pp. 253-273 in Clark, T.W. & Seebeck, J.H. (eds). Management and conservation of small populations. Brookfield : Chicago Zoological Society 295 pp.

Lindenmayer, D.B., Smith, A.P., Craig, S.A. & Lumsden, L.F. 1989. A survey of the distribution of Leadbeater's possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy in the central highlands of Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 106: 174-178 (Corrected Appendix appears as Vict. Nat. 107: 136-137)

Lindenmayer, D.B., Tanton, M.T. & Cunningham, R.B. 1991. A critique of the use of nest boxes for the conservation of Leadbeater's possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy. Wildlife Research 18: 619-624

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

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Dixon, J.M. 1992. An additional historic record of Leadbeater's possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy, prior to the 1961 rediscovery of the species. Victorian Naturalist 109: 217-218

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Lacy, R.C. 1995. Metapopulation viability of Leadbeater's possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, in fragmented old-growth forests. Ecological Applications 5: 164-182

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Meggs, R.A. 1996. Use of den trees by Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri). Australian Journal of Zoology 44: 625-638

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Norton, T.W. 1993. The conservation of Leadbeater's possum in southeastern Australia and the northern spotted owl in the Pacific North-west of the USA: management issues, strategies and lessons. Pacific Conservation Biology 1: 13-18

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Possingham, H.P. 1995. Modelling the impacts of wildfire on the viability of metapopulations of the endangered Australian species of arboreal marsupial, Leadbeater's possum. Forest Ecology and Management 74: 197-222

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Possingham, H.P. 1995. Modelling the viability of metapopulations of the endangered Leadbeater's possum in southeastern Australia. Biodiversity and Conservation 4: 984-1018

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Possingham, H.P. 1995. The conservation of arboreal marsupials in the montane ash forests of the central highlands of Victoria, south-eastern Australia. 7. Modelling the persistence of Leadbeater's possum in response to modified timber harvesting practices. Biological Conservation 73: 239

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Possingham, H.P. 1996. Modelling the inter-relationships between habitat patchiness, dispersal capability and metapopulation persistence of the endangered species, Leadbeater's possum, in south-eastern Australia. Landscape Ecology 11: 79-105

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Possingham, H.P. 1996. Ranking conservation and timber management options for Leadbeater's possum in southeastern Australia using population viability analysis. Conservation Biology 10: 235-251

Macfarlane, M.A. & Loyn, R.H. 1994. Management for the conservation of Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) - a reply. Pacific Conservation Biology 1: 84-86 [with response by D.B. Lindenmayer]

Macfarlane, M.A. & Seebeck, J.H. 1991. Draft management strategies for the conservation of Leadbeater's possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri, in Victoria. Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Technical Report Series No 111. 67 pp.

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Smales, I.J. 1994. The discovery of Leadbeater's possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy, resident in a lowland swamp woodland. Victorian Naturalist 111: 178-181

Smith, A. 1984. Demographic consequences of reproduction, dispersal and social interaction in a population of Leadbeaters possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri). pp. 359-373 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Smith, A. 1984. Diet of Leadbeaters possum, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri (Marsupialia). Australian Wildlife Research 11: 265-273

Smith, A. 1995. Leadbeater's Possum Gymnobelideus leadbeateri. pp. 224-226 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Smith, A.P., Nagy, K.A., Fleming, M.R. & Green, B. 1982. Energy requirements and water turnover in free-living Leadbeater's possums, Gymnobelideus leadbeateri (Marsupialia: Perauridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 737-749

Smith, A.P. & Lee, A.K. 1984. The evolution of strategies for survivial and reproduction in possums and gliders. pp. 17-33 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Smith, A.P. & Lindenmayer, D. 1988. Tree hollow requirements of Leadbeater's possum and other possums and gliders in timber production ash forests of the Victorian central highlands. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 347-362

Smith, A. P. & Lindenmayer, D. 1992. Forest succession, timber production and conservation of Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri Marsupialia: Petauridae). Forest Ecology and Management 49: 311-332

Smith, M.J. 1984. The reproductive system and paracloacal glands of Petaurus breviceps and Gymnobelideus leadbeateri (Marsupialia: Petauridae). pp. 321-330 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Leadbeater's Possum)

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Subfamily PETAURINAE

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Genus Petaurus Shaw, 1791

Petaurus Shaw, G. 1791. The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature. London : Nodder Vol. 2. [Date published Mar. 1791: publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1895. On the dates of Shaw and Nodder's 'Naturalist's Miscellany'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 15: 375–376] [text to pl. 60].
Type species:
Petaurus australis Shaw, 1791 by monotypy.
Ptilotus Fischer [von Waldheim], G. 1814. Zoognosia Tabulis Synopticis Illustrata : in usum praelectionum Academiae imperialis medico-chirugicae mosquensis edita. Volumen tertium. Quadrupedum reliquorum, Cetorum et Monotrymatum descriptionem continens. Mosquae : Vsevolozsky xxiv, 734 pp. [512].
Type species:
Petaurus australis Shaw, 1791 by subsequent designation, see 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].
Belideus Waterhouse, G.R. 1838. Observations on certain modifications observed in the dentition of the flying opossums (of the genus Petaurus of authors). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 6: 149-156 [May 1839] [151].
Type species:
Didelphis sciurea Shaw, 1794 by original designation.
Xenochirus 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] [85].
Type species:
Didelphis sciurea Shaw, 1794 by monotypy.
Petaurula Matschie, P. 1916. Die Verbreitung der Beuteltiere auf NeuGuinea mit einigen Bemerkungen über ihre Einteilung in Untergattungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8: 259-308 +map [Date published June 1916] [261] [proposed as subgenus of Petaurus Shaw, 1791].
Type species:
Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse, 1839 by original designation.
Petaurella Matschie, P. 1916. Die Verbreitung der Beuteltiere auf NeuGuinea mit einigen Bemerkungen über ihre Einteilung in Untergattungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 8: 259-308 +map [Date published June 1916] [261] [proposed as subgenus of Petaurus Shaw, 1791].
Type species:
Petaurus papuanus Thomas, 1888 by original designation (extralimital).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [91]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya including offshore islands.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, WA: Sturt Plateau (STU)

Distribution References

Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls.

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Species Petaurus ariel (Gould, 1842)

CAVS: 1752

Introduction

Previously treated as a subspecies of P. breviceps by Iredale & Troughton (1934) and subsequent authors. Raised to species level by Cremona et al. (2020) based on molecular and morphological data.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

General References

Cremona, T., Baker, A.M., Cooper, S.J.B., Montague-Drake, R., Stobo-Wilson, A.M. & Carthew, S.M. 2020. Integrative taxonomic investigation of Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia: Petauridae) reveals three distinct species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(2): 503-527 [Date published online 13 July 2020]

Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 i-xl, 1-69, pl. 1-60. [34, pl. 27] (as Belideus ariel)

Malekian, M., Cooper, S.J.B. & Carthew, S.M. 2010. Phylogeography of the Australian sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps): evidence for a new divergent lineage in eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 58(3): 165-181

Common Name References

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Species Petaurus australis Shaw, 1791

CAVS: 1136

Yellow-bellied Glider

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

Cooper, S.J.B., Travouillon, K.J., Helgen, K.M., Saint, K., Russell, R. & Winter, J. 2023. Reassessment of the subspecific status of the Australian Wet Tropics yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis. Australian Mammalogy 45(2): 220-236

Introduction

The subspecies Petaurus australis reginae was recognised by several authors and was usually used for northern Queensland populations. However, the type locality is at Gin Gin, which is too far south for the disjunct northern populations, and contiguous with the remainder of the southern distribution of P. australis. Cooper et al. (2023) provided morphological and molecular evidence that the northern (or "Wet Tropics") population was distinctive at the subspecies level applying the name P. australis brevirostrum as no reliable scientific name had been applied to the population.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, glider, gregarious, mellivore, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sap-feeder, tall open forest.

General References

Bell, M.J. & Bell, T.J. 1997. Use of Lophostemon confertus as a sap-feed tree by yellow-bellied gliders, Petaurus australis, on the mid north coast of New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 1997: 103-106

Cooper, S.J.B., Travouillon, K.J., Helgen, K.M., Saint, K., Russell, R. & Winter, J. 2023. Reassessment of the subspecific status of the Australian Wet Tropics yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis. Australian Mammalogy 45(2): 220-236

Craig, S.A. 1985. Social organization, reproduction and feeding behaviour of a population of yellow-bellied gliders, Petaurus australis (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Wildlife Research 12: 1-18

Craig, S.A. 1986. A record of twins in the yellow-bellied glider, (Petaurus australis Shaw) (Marsupialia: Petauridae) with notes on the litter size and reproductive strategy of the species. Victorian Naturalist 103: 72-75

Eyre, T.J. & Smith, A.P. 1997. Floristic and structural habitat preferences of yellow-bellied gliders (Petaurus australis) and selective logging impacts in southeast Queensland, Australia. Forest Ecology and Management 98: 281-295

Goldingay, R. & Possingham, H. 1995. Area requirements for viable populations of the Australian gliding marsupial Petaurus australis. Biological Conservation 73: 161-167

Goldingay, R.L. 1987. Sap feeding by the marsupial Petaurus australis: an enigmatic behaviour? Oecologia (Berlin) 73: 154-158

Goldingay, R.L. 1989. Time budget and related aspects of the foraging behaviour of the yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 105-112

Goldingay, R.L. 1990. The foraging behaviour of a nectar feeding marsupial, Petaurus australis. Oecologia (Berlin) 85: 191-199

Goldingay, R.L. 1991. An evaluation of hypotheses to explain the pattern of sap feeding by the yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis. Australian Journal of Ecology 16: 491-500

Goldingay, R.L. 1992. Socioecology of the yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis) in a coastal forest. Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 267-278

Goldingay, R.L. 1994. Loud calls of the yellow-bellied glider, Petarus australis : territorial behaviour by an arboreal marsupial. Australian Journal of Zoology 42: 279-293

Goldingay, R.L., Quin, D.G. & Churchill, S. 2001. Spatial variability in the social organisation of the yellow-bellied glider near Ravenshoe, north Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 49: 397-409

Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. 2004. Ecology of the Australian Petauridae. pp. 376-400 in Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. (eds). The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons.

Goldingay, R.L. & Kavanagh, R.P. 1990. Socioecology of the yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis, at Waratah Creek, NSW. Australian Journal of Zoology 38: 327-341

Goldingay, R.L. & Kavanagh, R.P. 1991. The yellow-bellied glider: a review of its ecology, and management considerations. pp. 365-375 in Lunney, D. (ed.). Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna. Mosman : Royal Zoological Society of N.S.W.

Goldingay, R.L. & Kavanagh, R.P. 1993. Home-range estimates and habitat of the yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus autralis) at Waratah Creek, New South Wales. Wildlife Research 20: 387-404

Henry, S.R. & Craig, S.A. 1984. Diet, ranging behaviour and social organization of the yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis Shaw) in Victoria. pp. 331-341 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Henry, S.R. & Craig, S.A. 1984. Social behavior of the yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis Shaw) in Victoria. pp. 331-341 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Henry, S.R. & Suckling, G.C. 1984. A review of the ecology of the sugar glider. pp. 355-358 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Hindell, M.A. & Lee, A.K. 1987. Habitat use and tree preferences of koalas in a mixed eucalypt forest. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 349-360

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [110]

Juzva, K. & Peeters, P.A. 1992. A preliminary report on the status of sugar gliders Petaurus breviceps (Waterhouse) reintroduced into Blackburn Lake Sanctuary, Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 109: 168-172

Kavanagh, R. 1987. Foraging behaviour of the yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis (Marsupialia: Petauridae), near Eden, New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 10: 37-39

Kavanagh, R.P. 1987. Forest phenology and its effect on foraging behaviour and selection of habitat by the yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis Shaw. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 371-384

Kavanagh, R.P. & Rohan-Jones, W.G. 1982. Calling behaviour of the yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis Shaw (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 95-111

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

Mackowski, C.M. 1986. Distribution, habitat and status of the yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis Shaw (Marsupialia: Petauridae) in northeastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 9: 141-144

Mackowski, C.M. 1988. Characteristics of eucalypts incised for sap by the yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis Shaw (Marsupialia: Petauridae), in northeastern New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 11: 5-14

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

Quin, D., Goldingay, R., Churchill, S. & Engel, D. 1996. Feeding behaviour and food availability of the yellow-bellied glider in North Queensland. Wildlife Research 23: 637-646

Russell, R. 1984. Social behaviour of the Yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis reginae in north Queensland. pp. 343-353 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Russell, R. 1984. Social behaviour of the Yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis reginae in north Queensland. pp. 343-353 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Russell, R. 1995. Yellow-bellied Glider Petaurus australis. pp. 226-228 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Smith, A. & Russell, R. 1982. Diet of the yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis (Marsupialia: Petauridae) in North Queensland. Australian Mammalogy 5: 41-45

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Yellow-bellied Glider)

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Subspecies Petaurus australis australis Shaw, 1791

CAVS: 1749

Yellow-bellied Glider

Petaurus australis Shaw, G. 1791. The Naturalist's Miscellany: or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature. London : Nodder Vol. 2. [Date published Mar. 1791: publication date established from Sherborn, C.D. 1895. On the dates of Shaw and Nodder's 'Naturalist's Miscellany'. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 15: 375–376] [text to pl. 60] [based on 'Hepoona Roo' of Hunter, J. in White, J. (1790).].
Type data:
Status unknown, NSW.
Secondary source:
White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. London : J. Debrett xviii 299 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84].
Sciurus novaehollandiae Meyer, F.A.A. 1793. Systematisch-Summarische Uebersicht der neuesten Zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika. Nebst zwey andern Zoologischen Abhandlungen. Leipzig : Dykischen Buchhandlung 184 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [11] [part A: combined description incorporating 'Hepoona Roo' of J. Hunter in White (1790) and 'Norfolk Island Flying Squirrel' of Anon. in Phillip (1789)].
Secondary source:
Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.; White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. London : J. Debrett xviii 299 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84].
Didelphis petaurus Shaw, G. 1800. General Zoology or systematic natural history. Quadrupeds. London : G. Kearsley Vol. 1Pt 2 i-viii pp. 249-552. [496] [replacement name for Petaurus australis Shaw, 1791, but part of description refers to the 'Black Flying Opossum' of Anon. in Phillip (1789)(=Didelphis volans Kerr, 1792)].
Type data:
Status unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW (as New Holland).
Secondary source:
Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.
Voluccella nigra Bechstein, J.M. 1800. Thomas Pennant's allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere.Aus dem englischen übersetzt aud mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen versehen von J.M. Bechstein. Weimar : Industrie-Comptoir's Vol. 2 xi 323-768 pls 35-54. [351] [part B: combined description; see part A under Petauroides volans volans (Kerr, 1792)].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, NSW.
Petaurus flaviventer 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] [403].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (not found in MNHP), Sydney, NSW (as New Holland); see Beaufort (1966).
Type locality references:
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; Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 38(5): 509-553.
Petaurus cunninghami Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 216 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [83] [in synonymy only].
Petaurus australis reginae Thomas, O. 1923. On some Queensland Phalangeridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 246-250 [1 Feb. 1923] [249].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1914.1.23.7 ♀ adult skin & skull, Gin Gin, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [109-110]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Patchy distribution from south of the Burdekin Gap (ca. 20 45' S) to south-eastern corner of SA

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, glider, gregarious, mellivore, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sap-feeder, tall open forest.

Common Name References

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [109] (Yellow-bellied Glider)

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Subspecies Petaurus australis brevirostrum Cooper, Travouillon & Helgen, 2023

Petaurus australis brevirostrum Cooper, S.J.B., Travouillon, K.J., Helgen, K.M., Saint, K., Russell, R. & Winter, J. 2023. Reassessment of the subspecific status of the Australian Wet Tropics yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis. Australian Mammalogy 45(2): 220-236 [233].
Type data:
Holotype QM J6352 adult female skin and skull, Mount Spurgeon, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Mount Windsor Tableland south to Herbert River Gorge, QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, glider, gregarious, mellivore, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sap-feeder, tall open forest.

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Species Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse, 1839

CAVS: 1138

Sugar Glider

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Glider, gregarious, mellivore, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sap-feeder, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

General References

Bradley, A.J. & Stoddart, D.M. 1993. The dorsal paracloacal gland and its relationship with seasonal changes in cutaneous scent gland morphology and plasma androgen in the marsupial sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps: Marsupialia: Petauridae). Journal of Zoology, London 229: 331-346

Carthew, S.M. 1994. Foraging behaviour of marsupial pollinators in a population of Banksia spinulosa. Oikos 69: 133-139

Colgan, D.J. & Flannery, T.F. 1992. Biochemical systematic studies in the genus Petaurus (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 245-256 [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]]

Goldingay, R.L. 1984. Photoperiodic control of diel activity in the sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps). pp. 385-391 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Goldingay, R.L., Carthew, S.M. & Whelan, R.J. 1991. The importance of non-flying mammals in pollination. Oikos 61: 79-87

Henry, S.R. & Suckling, G.C. 1984. A review of the ecology of the Sugar glider (Petaureus breviceps). pp. 355-358 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Howard, J. 1989. Diet of Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia: Petauridae) in a mosaic of coastal woodland and heath. Australian Mammalogy 12: 15-21

Jackson, S. 1994. Sugar glider or squirrel glider - determined the difference. Thylacinus, Journal of the Australian Society of Zookeepers 19: 4-10

Jackson, S.M. 2000. Habitat relationships of the mahogany glider Petaurus gracilis and the sugar glider Petaurus breviceps. Wildlife Research 27: 39-48

Jolly, C.J., Moore, H.A., Cowan, M.A., Cremona, T., Dunlop, J.A., Legge, S.M., Linley, G.D, Miritis, V., Woinarski, J.C.Z. & Nimmo, D.G. 2022. Taxonomic revision reveals potential impacts of Black Summer megafires on a cryptic species. Pacific Conservation Biology 29(1): 17-25

Kleinknecht, S. 1985. Lack of social entrainment of free-running circadian activity rhythms in the Australian sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps: Marsupialia). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 16: 189-193

Kleinknecht, S., Erkert, H.G. & Nelson, J.E. 1985. Circadian and ultradian rhythms of activity and O2 consumption in three nocturnal marsupial species: Petaurus breviceps, Phalangeridae; Dasyuroides byrnei, Dasyuridae; Monodelphis domestica, Didelphidae. Zeitschrift fur Säugetierkunde 50: 321-329

Klettenheimer, B.S., Temple-Smith, P.D. & Sofroniodis, G. 1997. Father and son sugar gliders: more than a genetic coalition? Journal of Zoology, London 242: 741-750

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

Mallick, J., Stoddardt, D.M., Jones, I. & Bradley, A.J. 1994. Behavioural and endocrinological correlates of social status in the male sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps Marsupialia : Petauridae). Physiology and Behaviour 55: 1131-1134

Moore, S.J. & Sanson, G.D. 1995. A comparison of the molar efficiency of two insect-eating mammals. Journal of Zoology, London 235: 175-192

Nagy, K.A. & Suckling, G.C. 1985. Field energetics and water balance of sugar gliders, Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 683-691

Quin, D.G. 1995. Population ecology of the squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) and the sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps) (Marsupialia, Petauridae) at Limeburners Creek, on the central north coast of New South Wales. Wildlife Research 22: 471-505

Quin, D.G., Smith, A.P., Green, S.W. & Hines, H.B. 1992. Estimating the home ranges of sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) (Marsupialia: Petauridae), from grid-trapping and radiotelemetry. Wildlife Research 19: 471-487

Quin, D.G., Smith, A.P. & Norton, T.W. 1996. Eco-geographical variation in size and sexual dimorphism in sugar gliders and squirrel gliders (Marsupialia, Petauridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 1996: 19-45

Roach, K. & Kreuger, B. 1989. The release of captive sugar gliders into Coranderrk Reserve, Healesville. Thylacinus, Journal of the Australian Society of Zookeepers 14(2): 9-12

Smith, A.P. 1982. Diet and feeding strategies of the marsupial sugar glider in temperate Australia. Journal of Animal Ecology 51: 149-166

Smith, A.P. & Green, S.W. 1987. Nitrogen requirements of the sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps), an omnivorous marsupial, on a honey-pollen diet. Physiological Zoology 60: 82-92

Smith, M.J. 1973. Petaurus breviceps. Mammalian Species 30: 1-5

Stoddart, D.M., Bradley, A.J. & Mallick, J. 1994. Plasma testosterone concentrations, body weight, social dominance and scent marking in male sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps; Marsupialia: Petauridae). Journal of Zoology, London 232: 595-601

Stoddart, D.M. & Bradley, A.J. 1991. The frontal and gular scent organs of the marsupial sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps). Journal of Zoology, London 225: 1-12

Stoddart, M., Bradley, A.J. & Hynes, K.L. 1992. Olfactory biology of the marsupial sugar glider - a preliminary study. pp. 523-528 in Doty, R.L. & Muller-Schwarze, D. (eds). Chemical signals in vertebrates. New York : Plenum.

Suckling, G.C. 1984. Population ecology of the sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps, in a system of fragmented habitats. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 49-76

Suckling, G.C. 1984. Population ecology of the sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps, in a system of fragmented habitats. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 49-75

Suckling, G.C. 1995. Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps. pp. 229-231 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Suckling, G.C. & Goldstraw, P. 1989. Progress of sugar glider Petaurus breviceps, establishment at the Tower Hill State Game Reserve, Vic. Victorian Naturalist 106: 179-183

Suckling, G.C. & Macfarlane 1983. Introduction of the sugar glider, Petaurus breviceps, into re-established forest of the Tower Hill State Game Reserve, Vic. Australian Wildlife Research 10: 249-258

Traill, B.J. & Lill, A. 1997. Use of tree hollows by two sympatric gliding possums, the squirrel glider, Petaurus norfolcensis, and the sugar glider, P. breviceps. Australian Mammalogy 20: 79-88

van Tets, I.G. 1998. Can flower-feeding marsupials meet their nitrogen requirements on pollen in the field? Australian Mammalogy 20: 383-390

van Tets, I.G. & Whelan, R.J. 1997. Banksia pollen in the diet of Australian mammals. Ecography 20: 499-505

Wilson, S.C. & Whelan, R.J. 1993. Prey camouflage in the sugar glider and predatory response by the variable goshawk. pp. 337-343 in Olsen, P. (ed.). Australian raptor studies. Moonee Ponds : Australasian Raptor Association, R.A.O.U. 344 pp.

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Sugar Glider)

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Subspecies Petaurus breviceps breviceps Waterhouse, 1839

CAVS: 1751

Petaurus (Belideus) breviceps Waterhouse, G.R. 1838. Observations on certain modifications observed in the dentition of the flying opossums (of the genus Petaurus of authors). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 6: 149-156 [May 1839] [152].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1855.12.24.78 adult, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Glider, gregarious, mellivore, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sap-feeder, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

General References

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Subspecies Petaurus breviceps longicaudatus Longman, 1924

CAVS: 1750

Petaurus breviceps longicaudatus Longman, H.A. 1924. (untitled abstract). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 36: ix.
Type data:
Holotype QM J4034, Mapoon Mission, Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD.

Introduction

The identity of this subspecies and its relationship to P. ariel and P. notatus is uncertain

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Glider, gregarious, mellivore, nocturnal, open forest, predator, sap-feeder, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

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Species Petaurus gracilis (De Vis, 1883)

CAVS: 1753

Mahogany Glider

Belideus gracilis De Vis, C.W. 1883. Description of a new Belideus from Northern Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 7: 619-620 [Apr. 1883] [619].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, N of Cardwell, QLD.

Generic Combinations

Petaurus gracilis (De Vis, 1883). —
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] (as synonym of Petaurus norfolcensis)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, glider, low woodland, omnivore, sap-feeder, swamp.

General References

Jackson, S.M. 1999. Preliminary predictions of the impacts of habitat area and catastrophes on the viability of mahogany glider Petaurus gracilis populations. Pacific Conservation Biology 5: 56-62

Jackson, S.M. 2000. Glide angle in the genus Petaurus and a review of gliding in mammals. Mammal Review 30: 9-30

Jackson, S.M. 2000. Habitat relationships of the mahogany glider Petaurus gracilis and the sugar glider Petaurus breviceps. Wildlife Research 27: 39-48

Jackson, S.M. 2000. Home-range and den use of the mahogany glider Petaurus gracilis. Wildlife Research 27: 49-60

Jackson, S.M. 2000. Population dynamics and life history of the mahogany glider Petaurus gracilis and sugar glider Petaurus breviceps in North Queensland. Wildlife Research 27: 21-37

Jackson, S.M. 2001. Foraging behaviour and food availability of the mahogany glider Petaurus gracilis (Petauridae: Marsupialia). Journal of Zoology, London 253: 1-13

Jackson, S.M. & Claridge, A. 1999. Climatic modelling of the distribution of the mahogany glider and squirrel glider Petaurus norfolcensis, with implications for their evolutionary history. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 47-57

Jackson, S.M. & Johnson, C.N. 2002. Time allocation to foraging in the mahogany glider Petaurus gracilis (Marsupialia, Petauridae) and a comparison of activity times in exudivorous and folivorous possums and gliders. Journal of Zoology, London 256: 271-277

Maxwell, S., Burbidge, A.A. & Morris, K. 1996. The 1996 Action Plan for Australian Marsupials and Monotremes. Canberra : Wildlife Australia 234 pp.

van Dyck, S. 1990. Belideus gracilis - soaring problem for an old De Vis glider. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 223-245

Van Dyck, S.M. 1995. Mahogany Glider Petaurus gracilis. pp. 232-233 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Warren, G.L. 1993. Conservation strategies for rare and threatened vertebrates of Australia's wet tropics region. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34: 229-241

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Mahogany Glider)

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Species Petaurus norfolcensis (Kerr, 1792)

CAVS: 1137

Squirrel Glider

Sciurus (Petaurus) norfolcensis Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class 1. Mammalia, containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copper plates. London : J. Murray & R. Faulder 1 Pt 1 xl 400 pp. 9 pls. [270] [based on the 'Norfolk Island Flying Squirrel' of Anon. in Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW, Norfolk Is. in error.
Secondary source:
Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.
[Sciurus (novaehollandiae]) (part B) Meyer, F.A.A. 1793. Systematisch-Summarische Uebersicht der neuesten Zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika. Nebst zwey andern Zoologischen Abhandlungen. Leipzig : Dykischen Buchhandlung 184 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [combined description; see part A under Petaurus australis australis Shaw, 1791].
Didelphis sciurea Shaw, G. 1794. Zoology of New Holland. London : J. Sowerby. [29].
Type data:
Status unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW (as New Holland).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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] [153-154]

Generic Combinations

Petaurus norfolcensis (Kerr, 1792).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Glider, insectivorous, mellivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, predator, sap-feeder, subtropical, woodland.

General References

Ball, T., Adams, E. & Goldingay, R.L. 2009. Diet of the squirrel glider in a fragmented landscape near Mackay, central Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology 57(5): 295-304

Jackson, S. 1994. Sugar glider or squirrel glider - determined the difference. Thylacinus, Journal of the Australian Society of Zookeepers 19: 4-10

Menkhorst, P.W., Weavers, B.W. & Alexander, J.S.A. 1988. Distribution, habitat and conservation status of the squirrel glider Petaurus norfolcensis (Petauridae: Marsupialia) in Victoria. Australian Wildlife Research 15: 59-71

Menkhorst, P.W. & Collier, M. 1988. Diet of the squirrel glider, Petaurus norfolcensis (Marsupialia: Petauridae), in Victoria. Australian Mammalogy 11: 109-116

Rowston, C. 1998. Nest- and refuge-tree usage by squirrel gliders, Petaurus norfolcensis, in south-east Queensland. Wildlife Research 25: 157-164

Sharpe, D.J. & Goldingay, R.L. 1998. Feeding behaviour of the squirrel glider at Bungawalbin Nature Reserve, north-eastern New South Wales. Wildlife Research 25: 243-254

Suckling, G.C. 1995. Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis. pp. 234-235 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Van der Ree, R. 2002. The population ecology of the squirrel glider Petaurus norfolcensis, within a network of remnant linear habitats. Wildlife Research 29: 329-340

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Squirrel Glider)

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Species Petaurus notatus Peters, 1859

Krefft's Glider

Petaurus (Belideus) notatus Peters, W.C.H. 1859. Über ein neues Flugbeutelthier, Petaurus (Belideus), aus dem südlichen Theile von Neuholland. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1859: 14-15 [for date of publication Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [14].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB (not found 1980), Port Phillip, VIC.
Type locality references:
Gould, J. 1861. Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 text to pl. 26. [Date published 1 May 1861: publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84 Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122].

Generic Combinations

Belideus notatus (Peters, 1859). —
Gould, J. 1863. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 i-xl, 1-69, pl. 1-60. [33, pl. 26]
Petaurus notatus (Peters, 1859). —
Cremona, T., Baker, A.M., Cooper, S.J.B., Montague-Drake, R., Stobo-Wilson, A.M. & Carthew, S.M. 2020. Integrative taxonomic investigation of Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia: Petauridae) reveals three distinct species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(2): 503-527 [Date published online 13 July 2020] [16] (new combination)

Introduction

Treated as a synonym of Petaurus breviceps by Thomas (1888), Iredale & Troughton (1934) and all subsequent authors. Removed from synonymy by Cremona et al. (2020) based on molecular and morphological data.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

North-eastern QLD to south-eastern SA, introduced to TAS, replaced by P. breviceps in coastal NSW and SE corner of QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Common Name References

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Incertae Sedis

Petaurus leucogaster Mitchell, T.L. 1838. Three Expeditions into the Interior of eastern Australia; with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1 [xxiv] 351 pp. 21pls. [xvii] [nom. nud.; incertae sedis; Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 included it in Petaroides volans but that species does not occur in the region visited by Mitchell; it may have been a Petaurus norfolcensis].
Type data:
Holotype AM (not found 1983), 'The banks of The Murray' River.
Secondary source:
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.

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Family PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE

Compiler and date details

October 2010 - Updated by Stephen M. Jackson, c/- Queensland Museum, Brisbane, following Van Dyck & Strahan (2008)

31 December 1998 - G.M. McKay (1988); updated by Barry J. Richardson (1999), Centre for Biostructural and Biomolecular Research, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia

Introduction

The separation of the ringtail possums and their relatives into a separate family (Archer 1984) to the Petauridae was based mainly on immunological grounds. More detailed molecular work (see Kirsch et al. 1997) has supported this separation. The most notable morphological feature of the family is the presence of selenodont dentition. This is variously seen as a primitive or derived condition (see Aplin & Archer 1987). Much of the morphological divergence seen in the group is the result of ecological specialisation of individual species. The recent practice of splitting the group into many genera is not supported by the molecular data summarised in Kirsch et al. (1997).

The first edition of this work included the Pseudocheiridae within the Petauridae.

General References

Archer, M. 1984. The Australian marsupial radiation. pp. 633-808 in Archer, M. & Clayton, G. (eds). Vertebrate Zoogeography & Evolution in Australasia — Animals in Space & Time. Carlisle : Hesperian Press.

Baverstock, P.R., Kreig, M., Birrell, J. & McKay, G.N. 1990. Albumin immunologic relationships of Australian marsupials II. The Pseudocheiridae. Australian Journal of Zoology 38: 519-526

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

McKay, G.M. 1982. Nomenclature of the gliding possum genera Petaurus and Petauroides (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 37-39

McKay, G.M. 1989. Family Petauridae. pp. 665-678 in Walton, D.W. & Richardson, B.J. (eds). Fauna of Australia. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1B 827 pp.

Murray, J.D., Sharman, G.B., McKay, G.M. & Calaby, J.H. 1980. Karyotypes, constitutive heterochromatin and taxonomy of ringtail possums of the genus Pseudocheirus (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 27: 73-81

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

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Genus Hemibelideus Collett, 1884

Hemibelideus 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] [proposed as subgenus of Phalangista Geoffroy and Cuvier, 1795].
Type species:
Phalangista (Hemibelideus) lemuroides Collett, 1884 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Hemibelideus lemuroides (Collett, 1884)

CAVS: 1128

Lemuroid Ringtail Possum

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

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

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.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)

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Genus Petauroides Thomas, 1888

Petauroides 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] [163] [Schoinobates Lesson, 1842 (=Petaurista Link, 1795) has been used incorrectly for this genus since Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122; see McKay, G.M. 1982. Nomenclature of the gliding possum genera Petaurus and Petauroides (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 37–39].
Type species:
Didelphis volans Kerr, 1792 by monotypy.
Secondary source:
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; McKay, G.M. 1982. Nomenclature of the gliding possum genera Petaurus and Petauroides (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 37-39.
Voluccella Bechstein, J.M. 1800. Thomas Pennant's allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere.Aus dem englischen übersetzt aud mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen versehen von J.M. Bechstein. Weimar : Industrie-Comptoir's Vol. 2 xi 323-768 pls 35-54. [351] [non Voluccella Bechstein, 1800; non Voluccella Fabricius, 1794].
Type species:
Didelphis volans Kerr, 1792 by original designation (Voluccella nigra proposed originally, = Didelphis volucccella, sensu Meyer 1793, = Petauroides volans, see Maloney & Harris (2008)).
Petaurista Desmarest, A.G. 1820. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Livr. 89. Mammalogie ou description des espèces de mammifères. Premiere partie, contenant les ordres des bimanes, des quadrumanes et des carnassiers. Paris : V. Agasse 1-276 pp. suppl. pls 1-14. [268] [non Petaurista Link, 1795 (Rodentia); the 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] designation of P. taguanoides Desmarest, 1818 as type species antedates that of Petaurus australis Shaw, 1791 by Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122].
Type species:
Petaurus taguanoides Desmarest, 1818 by subsequent designation, see 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].
Secondary source:
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]; 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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.

Introduction

This genus has long been considered to contain the single species P. volans (Kerr, 1792) with two subspecies, P. volans volans ranging from VIC to around Rockhampton, QLD, and P. volans minor (Collett, 1887) north of Rockhampton. However, mounting evidence has shown that it likely contains at least two taxa, and possibly three, that could be recognised at the species level. Jackson & Groves (2015) recognised three species, P. volans, P. minor and in addition P. armillatus Thomas 1923, occurring between northern NSW/southern QLD and Rockhampton, however they only cited personal communication with the late Kenneth Aplin and a brief conference abstract by Arbogast et al. (2011) as their support. More recently McGregor et al. (2020) presented molecular and morphological results that supported the assertion of Jackson & Groves (2015), but their sampling did not include any specimens from NSW, the largest part of P. volans range, and they noted that "additional surveys should be undertaken to obtain a more complete understanding of genetic structure across the range of greater gliders.". Work is currently underway by Kyle Armstrong and Brian Arbogast to address this situation (personal communication) and as such we recognise P. minor as a distinct species but retain P. volans armillatus as a junior synonym of P. volans until their work is completed.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Arbogast, B., Aplin, K., Armstrong, K., Ogawa, L. & Taylor, A. 2011. Cryptic diversity in an iconic Australian marsupial: the greater glider, Petauroides volans. Joint Meeting of the 57th Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society with the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists. Portland State University, Oregon. USA. 24–28 June 2011 (2011). pp.

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [114]

Maloney, K.S. & Harris, J.M. 2008. Early natural history of the Greater Glider, Petauroides volans (Kerr, 1792). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 129: 39-55

McGregor, D.C., Padovan, A., Georges, A., Krockenberger, A., Yoon, H.-J. & Youngentob, K.N. 2020. Genetic evidence supports three previously described species of greater glider, Petauroides volans, P. minor, and P. armillatus. Scientific Reports

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Species Petauroides minor (Collett, 1887)

CAVS: 1754

Northern Greater Glider

Petaurista volans minor Collett, R. 1887. On a collection of mammals from central and northern Queensland. Zoologische Jahrbücher 2: 829-940 [926].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1887.5.12.2 ♂ adult skin & skull, Herbert Vale (and originally Coomooboolaroo), QLD.
Type locality references:
Thomas, O. 1923. On some Queensland Phalangeridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 246-250 [1 Feb. 1923] (restricted the type locality to Herbert Vale).
Petaurides cinereus Ramsay, E.P. 1890. On a new species of Petaurides from the Bellenden-Ker Range, Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 77-78 [Sept. 1890] [77].
Type data:
Lectotype AM M12809 skull only, probably Atherton Tableland (as Bellenden-Ker Range), QLD.
Type locality references:
McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cairns to north of Gladstone, QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp. [241] (as P. volans minor)

Common Name References

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [114] (Northern Greater Glider)

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Species Petauroides volans (Kerr, 1792)

CAVS: 1133

Southern Greater Glider

Didelphis volans Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class 1. Mammalia, containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copper plates. London : J. Murray & R. Faulder 1 Pt 1 xl 400 pp. 9 pls. [199] [based on 'Black Flying Opossum' of Anon. in Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.; confused in early years with Petaurus australis Shaw, 1791; see McKay, G.M. 1982. Nomenclature of the gliding possum genera Petaurus and Petauroides (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 37–39].
Type data:
Status unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW (as New South Wales).
Secondary source:
Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.; McKay, G.M. 1982. Nomenclature of the gliding possum genera Petaurus and Petauroides (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 37-39.
Didelphis voluccella Meyer, F.A.A. 1793. Systematisch-Summarische Uebersicht der neuesten Zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika. Nebst zwey andern Zoologischen Abhandlungen. Leipzig : Dykischen Buchhandlung 184 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [26] [on same basis as Didelphis volans Kerr, 1792].
Type data:
Status unknown, NSW.
Didelphis macroura Shaw, C. 1794. Zoology of New Holland. London : J. Sowerby. [33].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW (as New Holland).
Voluccella nigra Bechstein, J.M. 1800. Thomas Pennant's allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere.Aus dem englischen übersetzt aud mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen versehen von J.M. Bechstein. Weimar : Industrie-Comptoir's Vol. 2 xi 323-768 pls 35-54. [351] [based on both 'Black flying' possum Phillip (1789) and 'Hepoona Roo' of Hunter in White (1790)].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, NSW.
Petaurus taguanoides 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] [400].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 189, vicinity of Sydney, NSW (as New South Wales).
Subsequent designation references:
Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 38(5): 509-553.
Petaurus peronii 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] [404].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 200 ♂ skin, Sydney, NSW (as New Holland).
Subsequent designation references:
Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 38(5): 509-553.
Petaurus didelphoides Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1825. Des Dents des Mammifères considérées comme Charactères Zoologiques (1821–1825). Paris : F.-G. Levrault iv 259-103 pls. [129].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, 'Australie'.
Petaurus maximus Partington, C.F. 1837. The British Cyclopaedia of Arts and Sciences (Literature, history, geography, law and politics. Natural history. Biography). London Vol. 3. [424] [nom. nud.; reference as quoted by Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122; p. 424 of Vol. 3 contains no reference to this or any other mammal].
Secondary source:
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.
Petauroides volans incanus Thomas, O. 1923. On some Queensland Phalangeridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 246-250 [1 Feb. 1923] [247].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1922.12.29.19 ♂ adult skin & skull, Eidsvold, QLD.
Petauroides volans armillatus Thomas, O. 1923. On some Queensland Phalangeridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 246-250 [1 Feb. 1923] [248].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1887.5.12.2 ♂ adult skin & skull (holotype is one of the syntypes of Petaurista volans minor Collett, 1887), Coomooboolaroo Station, 25 km SW of Duaringa, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Generic Combinations

Voluccella macroura (Shaw, 1794). —
Bechstein, J.M. 1800. Thomas Pennant's allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere.Aus dem englischen übersetzt aud mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen versehen von J.M. Bechstein. Weimar : Industrie-Comptoir's Vol. 2 xi 323-768 pls 35-54.
Phalangista macroura (Shaw, 1794). —
Schinz, H.R. 1821. Das Tierreich eingeheilt nach dem Bau der Thiere als Grundlage ihrer Naturgeschichte und der Vergleichenden Anatomie von dem Herrn Ritter von Cuvier Staatsgrath von Fransreich und beständiger Secretär der Academie der Wissenschaften U.S.W. Aus dem Französischen frey übersetzt und mit vielen Zusätzen versehen. Säugethiere und Vögel. Stuttgart : J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung.
Petaurista macroura (Shaw, 1794). —
Desmarest, A.G. 1820. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Livr. 89. Mammalogie ou description des espèces de mammifères. Premiere partie, contenant les ordres des bimanes, des quadrumanes et des carnassiers. Paris : V. Agasse 1-276 pp. suppl. pls 1-14.
Petaurus macrourus (Shaw, 1794). —
Desmarest, A.G. 1817. Nouveau Dictionnaire d´Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Deterville Vol. 25 400-404 pp.
Petaurus niger (Bechstein, 1800). —
Oken, L. 1816. Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Th. 3, Zoologie, Abth. 2, Fleischthiere. Jena : August Schmid xvi + 1270 pp.
Petaurista taguanoides (Desmarest, 1817). —
Desmarest, A.G. 1820. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Livr. 89. Mammalogie ou description des espèces de mammifères. Premiere partie, contenant les ordres des bimanes, des quadrumanes et des carnassiers. Paris : V. Agasse 1-276 pp. suppl. pls 1-14.
Schoinobates volans volans (Kerr, 1792). —
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 [29]
Phalanger volans (Kerr, 1792). —
Lacépède, B.-G. 1801. [title]. Mémoires de l'Institut de Paris iii
Petaurista volans (Kerr, 1792). —
Thomas, O. 1885. Phalanger. In The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature. Edinburgh : Adam & Charles Black Vol. 18 (9th Edition) 18. 727-729 pp.
Pataurus volans (Kerr, 1792). —
Thomas, O. 1879. On Robert Kerr's translation of the 'Systema Naturae' of Linnaeus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(5): 396-397
Phalangista volans (Kerr, 1792). —
Desmarest, A.G. 1803. Nouveau Dictionnaire d´Histoire Naturelle Vol. 17 Paris : Deterville. 381 pp.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Folivore, glider, nocturnal, open forest, tall open forest, temperate, tropical.

General References

Comport, S.S., Ward, S.J. & Foley, W.J. 1996. Home ranges, time budgets, and food tree use in a high density tropical population of greater gliders, Petauroides volans minor (Pseudocheiridae, Marsupialia). Wildlife Research 23: 401-419

Foley, W.J., Hume, I.D. & Cork, S.J. 1989. Fermentation in the hindgut of the greater glider (Petauroides volans) and the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) - two arboreal folivores. Physiological Zoology 62: 1126-1143

Henry, S.R. 1984. Social organization of the Greater glider (Petauroides volans) in Victoria. pp. 221-228 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 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.

Kehl, J. & Borsboom, A. 1984. Home range, den tree use and activity patterns in the Greater glider, Petauroides volans. pp. 229-236 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Kerle, A. 2001. Possums: The Brushtails, Ringtails and Greater Glider. Sydney : University of NSW Press.

McKay, G.M. 1995. Greater Glider Petauroides volans. pp. 240-241 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

McQuade, L.R. 1985. B-chromosome systems in the greater glider (Petauroides volans volans) (Marsupialia: Petauridae). I B-chromosome distribution. Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 38: 189-195

Murray, J.D., McKay, G.M. & Sharman, G.B. 1979. Studies on metatherian sex chromosomes. IX. Sex chromosomes of the greater glider (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 32: 375-386

Common Name References

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [114] (Southern Greater Glider)

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Genus Petropseudes Thomas, 1923

Petropseudes Thomas, O. 1923. On some Queensland Phalangeridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 246-250 [1 Feb. 1923] [250] [proposed as subgenus of Pseudocheirus Ogilby, 1837].
Type species:
Pseudochirus dahli Collett, 1895 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

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Species Petropseudes dahli (Collett, 1895)

CAVS: 1125

Rock Ringtail Possum

Pseudochirus dahli Collett, R. 1895. On a new Pseudochirus from N.W. Australia. Zoologischer Anzeiger 18(490): 464-468 [2 Dec. 1895] [464].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH 1897.4.12.4 ♀ adult skin & skull, Mary River, NT; RMNH 1218/13392 ♀ adult skin & skull, Mary River, NT; UZMO 1217 ♀ skin & skull, Mary River, NT.

Generic Combinations

Petropseudes dahli (Collett, 1895).

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Including Groote Eylandt.

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, florivore, folivore, frugivorous, nocturnal, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Restricted to rocky outcrops and escarpments.

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

Kerle, J.A. & Winter, J.W. 1995. Rock Ringtail Possum Petropseudes dahli. pp. 242-243 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Runcie, M.J. 2000. Biparental care and obligate monogamy in the rock-haunting possum, (Petrospeudes dahli) of tropical Australian. Animal Behaviour 59: 1001-1008

Runcie, M.J. 2004. Scent-marking and vocal communication in the rock-haunting possum Petropseudes dahli. pp. 401-412 in Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. (eds). The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons.

Common Name References

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

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Genus Pseudocheirus Ogilby, 1837

Pseudocheirus Ogilby, W. 1837. Observations on the opposable power of the thumb in certain mammals, considered as a zoological character; and on the natural affinities which subsist between the Bimana, Quadrumana, and Pedimana. Magazine of Natural History Charlesworth 1: 449-459 [Sept. 1837] [457].
Type species:
Phalangista cookii Desmarest, 1818 (=Pseudocheirus peregrinus Desmarest, 1818) by subsequent designation, see 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].
Pseudochirus [Ogilby, W.] 1836. Anonymous untitled abstract of presentation by W. Ogilby. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1836: 25-28 [26] [incorrect original spelling, later corrected in Ogilby, W. (1837). op. cit. et subseq.].
Hepoona Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [402] [Hepoona of Ogilby, W. 1838. Observations upon some recent communications of Mr. J.E. Gray, of the British Museum, to the Annals of Natural History; with descriptions of two new kangaroos from Van Diemen's Land. Annals of Natural History 1: 216–221 [Published in 1 May 1838 and republished in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. in July 1838] [218] was used in synonymy and is therefore not available; the first available use of Hepoona is Gray, op. cit.].
Type species:
Phalangista cookii Desmarest, 1818 by indication.
Secondary source:
Ogilby, W. 1838. Observations upon some recent communications of Mr. J.E. Gray, of the British Museum, to the Annals of Natural History; with descriptions of two new kangaroos from Van Diemen's Land. Annals of Natural History 1: 216-221 [Published in 1 May 1838 and republished in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. in July 1838].
Ptenos Gray, J.E. 1843. List of the Specimens of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum xxviii 216 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [xxii] [first used as a synonym of Hepoona].
Pseudochirulus Matschie, P. 1915. Einige Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pseudochirus Ogilby. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4: 83-95 [Date published 15 April 1915] [91] [proposed as subgenus of Pseudocheirus Ogilby, 1837].
Type species:
Phalangista (Pseudochirus) canescens Waterhouse, 1846 by original designation (extralimital).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya including Japen and Salawatti 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)

Distribution References

Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls.

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Species Pseudocheirus occidentalis (Thomas, 1888)

CAVS: 1046

Pseudochirus occidentalis 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] [174].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1841.1198 (37.K.) ♀ adult skin & skull, King George Sound, WA.

Generic Combinations

Pseudocheirus occidentalis (Thomas, 1888).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, florivore, folivore, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

General References

de Torres, P.J., Hayward, M.W. & Rosier, S.M. 2004. The western ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus occidentalis, and the quokka, Setonix brachyurus. Case studies: Western Shield Review – February 2003. Conservation Science Western Australia 5: 235-257

Jones, B.A., How, R.A. & Kitchener, D.J. 1994. A field study of Pseudocheirus occidentalis (Marsupialia: Petauridae). II. Population studies. Wildlife Research 21: 189-202

Thompson, S.A. & Thompson, G.G 2009. A case for in situ management of Western Ringtail Possums, Pseudocheirus occidentalis, in development areas. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 92(3): 269-276

Wayne, A.F., Cowling, D.B., Lindenmayer, D.B., Ward, C.G., Vellios, C.V, Donnelly, C.F. & Calver, M.C. 2005. The abundance of a threatened arboreal marsupial in relation to anthropogenic disturbances at local and landscape scales in Mediterranean type forest in south-west Australia. Biological Conservation 127: 463-476

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Species Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Boddaert, 1785)

CAVS: 1129

Common Ringtail Possum

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls. [224]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Including Flinders and King Ils.

IBRA

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

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

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

Kerle, A. 2001. Possums: The Brushtails, Ringtails and Greater Glider. Sydney : University of NSW 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

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)

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Subspecies Pseudocheirus peregrinus convolutor (Schinz, 1821)

CAVS: 1759

Phalangista convolutor Schinz, H.R. 1821. Das Tierreich eingeheilt nach dem Bau der Thiere als Grundlage ihrer Naturgeschichte und der Vergleichenden Anatomie von dem Herrn Ritter von Cuvier Staatsgrath von Fransreich und beständiger Secretär der Academie der Wissenschaften U.S.W. Aus dem Französischen frey übersetzt und mit vielen Zusätzen versehen. Säugethiere und Vögel. Stuttgart : J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. [258] [Balantia convolutor Oken, 1816 upon which Schinz's name is undoubtedly based, is not available, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 417. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of volume 3 (Zoologie) of the work by Lorenz Oken entitled Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte published in 1815–1816. Opin. Decl. Int. Comm. Zool. Nomen. 14: 1–42].
Type data:
Status unknown, Adventure Bay, TAS.
Secondary source:
International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 417. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of volume 3 (Zoologie) of the work by Lorenz Oken entitled Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte published in 1815–1816. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 1-42.
Phalangista viverrina Ogilby, W. 1838. (untitled abstract). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1837: 131 [14 June 1838].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1855.12.24.213 ♀ adult skin & skull, TAS (as Van Diemen's Land).
Subsequent designation references:
Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 54 The marsupial genus Pseudocheirus and its subgenera. American Museum Novitates 1287: 1-30 [11 June 1945].
Pseudochirus cooki bassianus Le Souef, A.S. 1929. Notes on some mammals from Bass Strait Islands, including a new subspecies of Pseudochirus. The Australian Zoologist 5: 329-332 [24 Mar. 1929] [330].
Type data:
Holotype AM M4450 ♂ adult skin & skull, Flinders Is., Bass Strait.
Phalangista incana Schinz, H.R. 1844. Systematisches vertzeichniss aller bis jetzt bekannten Säugethiere, oder Synopsis mammalium nach dem Cuvier'schen System. Solothurn : Publisher unknown 1 pp. [530].
Type data:
Status unknown, unknown locality, said to be TAS.
Type locality references:
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.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, florivore, folivore, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

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Subspecies Pseudocheirus peregrinus cooki (Desmarest, 1818)

CAVS: 1758

Phalangista cookii 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] [476] [described from 2 specimens collected by Péron; although reference is made to plate in Cook's 3rd voyage, description is not from that plate].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 201 (skin) and Comp. Anat. A.2571 Skull ♂. adult, 'Australie' according to Péron's label; Desmarest, op. cit., gives 'terre de Van Diémen'; mainland Australia probably Sydney, NSW.
Paralectotype(s) MNHP Comp. Anat. A.2571 (skull) ♂ adult.
Subsequent designation references:
Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 38(5): 509-553.
Type locality references:
Ogilby, W. 1838. Observations upon some recent communications of Mr. J.E. Gray, of the British Museum, to the Annals of Natural History; with descriptions of two new kangaroos from Van Diemen's Land. Annals of Natural History 1: 216-221 [Published in 1 May 1838 and republished in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. in July 1838].
Pseudochirus victoriae Matschie, P. 1915. Einige Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pseudochirus Ogilby. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4: 83-95 [Date published 15 April 1915] [85].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB 20698 ♀ adult skin & skull, Cape Otway, VIC.
Pseudochirus laniginosus modestus Thomas, O. 1926. On various animals obtained during Capt. Wilkin's expedition in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 17: 625-635 [June 1926] [632] [label on holotype reads: '26.3.11.37. Oct. 1924. Collector's No. 764. St. George's River. NSW Australia. Coll. G.H. Wilkins W.R.I.E.' - at that time Wilkins was in Arnhem Land].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1926.3.11.37 ♂ subadult skin only (unknown locality; said to be 'St. George's River, NSW', but no such place exists or existed. Possibly from George's River, Sydney, NSW as this specimen and a paratype now in QM (J4518) were among specimens sent back at end of Wilkins' expedition, and probably were animals purchased from J.H. Wright. All Wilkins' NSW specimens (from Ebor) were catalogued at BMNH in 1925 from an earlier shipment), unknown locality.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

SE NSW, coastal VIC, SE SA.

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, florivore, folivore, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

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Subspecies Pseudocheirus peregrinus peregrinus (Boddaert, 1785)

CAVS: 1756

Didelphis peregrinus Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus Animalium. Vol. I. Sistens Quadrupedia eorumque varietates. Rotterdam : C.R. Hake. [78] [based on 'New Holland Opossum' of Pennant, T. 1783. History of the Quadrupeds. London : B. White xxiv 566 +14 pp. 52 pls [310]].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Endeavour River, QLD.
Secondary source:
Pennant, T. 1783. History of the Quadrupeds. London : B. White xxiv 566 +14 pp. 52 pls.
Didelphis caudivolvula Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class 1. Mammalia, containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copper plates. London : J. Murray & R. Faulder 1 Pt 1 xl 400 pp. 9 pls. [196] [on same basis as D. peregrinus Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus Animalium. Vol. I. Sistens Quadrupedia eorumque varietates. Rotterdam : C.R. Hake].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, (as New Holland near Endeavour River), QLD.
Secondary source:
Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus Animalium. Vol. I. Sistens Quadrupedia eorumque varietates. Rotterdam : C.R. Hake.
Didelphis novaehollandiae Bechstein, J.M. 1800. Thomas Pennant's allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere.Aus dem englischen übersetzt aud mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen versehen von J.M. Bechstein. Weimar : Industrie-Comptoir's Vol. 2 xi 323-768 pls 35-54. [348] [on same basis as D. peregrinus Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus Animalium. Vol. I. Sistens Quadrupedia eorumque varietates. Rotterdam : C.R. Hake].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Endeavour River, QLD.
Secondary source:
Boddaert, P. 1785. Elenchus Animalium. Vol. I. Sistens Quadrupedia eorumque varietates. Rotterdam : C.R. Hake.
Phalangista cookii Schinz, H.R. 1821. Das Tierreich eingeheilt nach dem Bau der Thiere als Grundlage ihrer Naturgeschichte und der Vergleichenden Anatomie von dem Herrn Ritter von Cuvier Staatsgrath von Fransreich und beständiger Secretär der Academie der Wissenschaften U.S.W. Aus dem Französischen frey übersetzt und mit vielen Zusätzen versehen. Säugethiere und Vögel. Stuttgart : J.G. Cotta'schen Buchhandlung. [258] [junior homonym of P. cookii Desmarest, 1818].
Type data:
Status unknown, 'north coast of New Holland'.
Phalangista banksii Gray, J.E. 1838. Notes on the above, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1: 106-108 [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84 [71]] [107] [based on 'New Holland Opossum' of Pennant, T. 1783. History of the Quadrupeds. London : B. White xxiv 566 +14 pp. 52 pls [301]; Balantia banksii Oken, 1816 is not available, see International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 417. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of volume 3 (Zoologie) of the work by Lorenz Oken entitled Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte published in 1815–1816. Opin. Decl. Int. Comm. Zool. Nomen. 14: 1–42].
Type data:
Status unknown, Endeavour River, QLD.
Secondary source:
Pennant, T. 1783. History of the Quadrupeds. London : B. White xxiv 566 +14 pp. 52 pls.; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1956. Opinion 417. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of volume 3 (Zoologie) of the work by Lorenz Oken entitled Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte published in 1815–1816. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 14: 1-42.
Pseudochirus laniginosus incanens Thomas, O. 1923. On some Queensland Phalangeridae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 11: 246-250 [1 Feb. 1923] [249].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1922.12.18.26 ♀ adult skin & skull, Vine Creek, near Ravenshoe, QLD.
Pseudochirus laniginosus notialis Thomas, O. 1923. On the ring-tailed phalanger of South Australia, and a new rat from North Queensland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 12: 158-160 [158].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1923.5.11.1 ♂ adult skin & skull, Aldgate, Mt Lofty, near Adelaide, SA.
Pseudochirus laniginosus oralis Thomas, O. 1926. On various animals obtained during Capt. Wilkin's expedition in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 17: 625-635 [June 1926] [631].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1926.3.11.28 ♂ adult skin & skull, Bloomsbury (as 'Bloombury'), QLD.
Pseudochirus rubidus Troughton, E. le G. & Le Souef, A.S. 1929. A new species of ring-tailed phalanger (Ps. laniginosus group) from the Bunya Mountains, S.E. Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 17: 291-296 [28 Nov. 1929] [294].
Type data:
Holotype AM M2791 ♀ adult skin & skull, N of Mt Mowbullan, Bunya Range, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [95] (based on Ride (1970: 224))

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gulf Plains (GUP), Kanmantoo (KAN), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, florivore, folivore, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

General References

Kerle, A. 2001. Possums: The Brushtails, Ringtails and Greater Glider. Sydney : University of NSW Press.

Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls.

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Subspecies Pseudocheirus peregrinus pulcher (Matschie, 1915)

CAVS: 1757

Pseudochirus pulcher Matschie, P. 1915. Einige Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pseudochirus Ogilby. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4: 83-95 [Date published 15 April 1915] [85] [intended as replacement name for Phalangista cookii Gould, 1858; Matschie accepted that P. cookii Gould was not equivalent to P. cookii Desmarest].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB 5534 ♀ adult skin & skull, no specified locality, but probably from northern rivers region of NSW, see McKay, G.M., unpublished data.
Phalangista cookii Gould, J. 1856. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 8. [text to pl. 18] [junior homonym of P. cookii Desmarest, 1818; junior homonym of P. cookii Schinz, 1821; label of lectotype inscribed in Gould's hand: 'Phalangista cookii Brushes of Clarence'].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1856.10.28.10 ♀ adult skin & skull, 'Brushes of Clarence' River, NSW.
Subsequent designation references:
McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.
Phalangista laniginosa Gould, J. 1856. The Mammals of Australia. London : J. Gould Part 8. [text to pl. 20].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1858.11.24.12 ♂ adult skin & skull, Dartbrook, near Muswellbrook, upper Hunter River, NSW.
Subsequent designation references:
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].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

NE NSW, SE Qld.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, florivore, folivore, nocturnal, open forest, subtropical, tall open forest, woodland.

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Genus Pseudochirops Matschie, 1915

Pseudochirops Matschie, P. 1915. Einige Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pseudochirus Ogilby. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4: 83-95 [Date published 15 April 1915] [86] [proposed as subgenus of Pseudocheirus Ogilby, 1837].
Type species:
Phalangista (Pseudochirus) albertisii Peters, 1874 by original designation (extralimital).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya including Japen Is.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls.

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Species Pseudochirops archeri (Collett, 1884)

CAVS: 1127

Green Ringtail Possum

Phalangista (Pseudochirus) archeri 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] [381].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH 1884.8.19.6 ♂ cast of skull, vicinity of Herbert River, as 'Herbert Vale', QLD; UZMO 1633 ♂ skin & skull, vicinity of Herbert River, as 'Herbert Vale', QLD.

Generic Combinations

Pseudochirops archeri (Collett, 1884).
Pseudocheirus archeri (Collett, 1884).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Between Townsville and Cooktown.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, 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

Jones, K.M.W., Maclagan, S.J. & Krockenberger, A.K. 2006. Diet selection in the green ringtail possum (Pseudochirops archeri): a specialist folivore in a diverse forest. Austral Ecology 31: 779-807

Kanowski, J. 2004. What factors control the distribution and abundance of folivores inhabiting rainforest of the Atherton Tablelands in north-east Queensland? pp. 539-548 in Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. (eds). The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons.

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

Procter-Gray, E. 1984. Dietary ecology of the Coppery brushtail possum, Green ringtail possum and Lumholtz's tree-kangaroo in North Queensland. pp. 129-135 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Russell, R. 1980. Spotlight on Possums. Brisbane : University of Queensland Press.

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

Winter, J.W. & Goudberg, N.J. 1995. Green Ringtail Possum Pseudochirops archeri. pp. 244-246 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. (Green Ringtail Possum)

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Genus Pseudochirulus Matschie, 1915

Pseudochirulus Matschie, P. 1915. Einige Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Gattung Pseudochirus Ogilby. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 4: 83-95 [Date published 15 April 1915] [91] [as subgenus of Pseudochirus].
Type species:
Pseudochirus canescens Waterhouse, 1846 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

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Species Pseudochirulus cinereus (Tate, 1945)

CAVS: 1016

Daintree River Ringtail Possum

Pseudocheirus herbertensis cinereus Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 54 The marsupial genus Pseudocheirus and its subgenera. American Museum Novitates 1287: 1-30 [11 June 1945] [17].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 107275 ♂ adult skin & skull, Mt Spurgeon, QLD.

Generic Combinations

Pseudochirulus cinereus (Tate, 1945). —
Murray, J.D., McKay, G.M., Winter, J.W. & Ingleby, S. 1989. Cytogenetics of the Herbert River ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus herbertensis (Diprotodontia: Pseudocheiridae); evidence for two species. Genome 32: 1119-1123

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, tropical.

General References

Murray, J.D., McKay, G.M., Winter, J.W. & Ingleby, S. 1989. Cytogenetics of the Herbert River ringtail possum, Pseudocheirus herbertensis (Diprotodontia: Pseudocheiridae); evidence for two species. Genome 32: 1119-1123

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

Common Name References

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

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Species Pseudochirulus herbertensis (Collett, 1884)

CAVS: 1126

Herbert River Ringtail Possum

Phalangista herbertensis 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] [383].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH 1884.8.19.3 ♀ cast of skull, tops of Ranges, ca. 25 km W of Cardwell (as Herbert Vale), QLD; UZMO 684 ♂ skin & skull, tops of Ranges, ca. 25 km W of Cardwell (as Herbert Vale), 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 mongan 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] [1130].
Type data:
Lectotype AM M1032 ♀ adult skin & skull, Herbert Gorge, near Herberton, QLD.
Subsequent designation references:
McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [94].
Pseudochirus herbertensis colletti Waite, E.R. 1899. Description of a ring-tailed possum regarded as a variety of Pseudochirus herbertensis, Collett. Records of the Australian Museum 3: 91-93 [17 Apr. 1899] [92].
Type data:
Lectotype AM M436 ♀ adult skin, skin not removed & skull not removed, Herberton district, QLD.
Subsequent designation references:
McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [92].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [94]

Generic Combinations

Pseudochirulus herbertensis (Collett, 1884).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From Ingham north to Thornton Peak.

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, 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

Haffenden, A. 1984. Breeding, growth and development in the Herbert River possum, Pseudocheirus herbertensis herbertensis (Marsupialia: Petauridae). pp. 277-281 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

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

Spear, R., Haffenden, A.T., Daniels, P.W., Thomas, A.D. & Seawright, C.D. 1984. Disease of the Herbert River Ringtail, Pseudocheirus herbertensis and other North Queensland rainforest possums. pp. 283–302 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

Williams, S.E., Bolitho, E.E. & Fox, S. 2003. Climate change in Australian tropical rainforests: an impending environmental catastrophe. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B) 270: 1887-1892

Winter, J.W. & Goudberg, N.J. 1995. Herbert River Ringtail Possum Pseudochirulus herbertensis. pp. 250-252 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. (Herbert River Ringtail Possum)

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Family TARSIPEDIDAE

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Introduction

The relationships of the monotypic family are best described as unsettled with albumin MCF and DNA hybridisation data suggesting that Tarsipes is most closely related to the Petauridae (Baverstock et al. 1990; Edwards & Westerman, 1995; Kirsch et al. 1997), though other forms of data suggest acrobatid affinities (Aplin & Archer 1987). Its chromosomes show relationships to both macropodids and other possums (Hayman & Sharp 1982). Tarsipes is distinguished by a long rostrum and tongue, markedly reduced dentition and unique pedal morphology. Although several other Australian mammals use pollen and nectar for food, Tarsipes is the most highly specialized nectar-feeder.

While phylogenetic position of this species is yet to be determined, the unique combination of anatomical and physiological characters certainly warrant family status.

General References

Baverstock, P., Kreig, M. & Birrell, J. 1990. Evolutionary relationships of Australian marsupials as assessed by albumin immunology. pp. 131-145 in Marshall Graves, J.A., Hope, R.M. & Cooper, D.W. (eds). Mammals from pouches and eggs. Genetics, breeding and evolution of marsupials and monotremes. Melbourne : CSIRO.

Hayman, D.L. & Sharp, P.J. 1982. The chromosomes of Tarsipes spencerae Gray (Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 799-803

Kirsch, J.A.W. 1977. The comparative serology of Marsupialia, and a classification of marsupials. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 52: 1-152

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

Renfree, M.B. 1980. Embryonic diapause in the honey possum Tarsipes spencerae. Search 11: 81

Russell, E.M. & Renfree, M.B. 1989. Tarsipedidae. pp. 769-782 in Walton, D.W. & Richardson, B.J. (eds). Fauna of Australia. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1B 827 pp.

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Genus Tarsipes Gervais & Verreaux, 1842

Tarsipes Gervais, P. & Verreaux, J. 1842. Nouveau genre de Didelphe. l'Institut, Journal Universel des Sciences et des Sociétés Savantes en France et à l'Étranger. 1ère Section. Sciences mathématiques, physiques et naturelles. No. 427. 75-76 pp. [publication date established from Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135–138] [75].
Type species:
Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842 by monotypy.
Secondary source:
Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135-138.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

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Species Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842

CAVS: 1159

Honey Possum

Tarsipes rostratus Gervais, P. & Verreaux, J. 1842. Nouveau genre de Didelphe. l'Institut, Journal Universel des Sciences et des Sociétés Savantes en France et à l'Étranger. 1ère Section. Sciences mathématiques, physiques et naturelles. No. 427. 75-76 pp. [publication date established from Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135–138] [75] [Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Grey, Governor of South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 39–42 [8 Mar. 1842; publication date established from Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135–138] cites Gervais as the author of Tarsipes, and uses this name sensu Gervais].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 151, Swan River, WA.
Subsequent designation references:
Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 38(5): 509-553.
Secondary source:
Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Grey, Governor of South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 39-42 [8 Mar. 1842; publication date established from Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135–138]; Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135-138.
Tarsipes spenserae Gray, J.E. 1842. Description of two new species of Mammalia discovered in Australia by Captain George Grey, Governor of South Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 39-42 [8 Mar. 1842; publication date established from Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135–138] [40] [originally described by Gray as a second species of Tarsipes: a junior objective synonym].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1842.2.1.32 ♂ adult skin, King George Sound, WA.
Tarsipes spencerae Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls. [88] [invalid emendation for Tarsipes spenserae Gray, 1842].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Mahoney, J.A. 1981. The specific name of the honey possum (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae: Tarsipes rostratus Gervais & Verreaux, 1842). Australian Mammalogy 4: 135-138 [136]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, mellivore, nocturnal, open forest, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Common in sandplain heathland.

General References

Collins, B.G., Wooller, R.D. & Richardson, K.C. 1988. Torpor by the honey possum, Tarsipes rostratus (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae), in response to food shortage and low environmental temperature. Australian Mammalogy 11: 51-57

Cummins, J.M., Temple-Smith, P.D. & Renfree, M.B. 1986. Reproduction in the male honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus: Marsupialia): the epididymus. American Journal of Anatomy 177: 385-402

Du Plessis, J. & Du Plessis, A. 1995. Observations on honey possums. Western Australian Naturalist 20: 49-50

Hayman, D.L. & Sharp, P.J. 1982. The chromosomes of Tarsipes spencerae Gray (Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology 30: 799-803

Kratzing, J.E. 1982. The anatomy of the rostral nasal cavity and vomeronasal organ in Tarsipes rostratus (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae). Australian Mammalogy 5: 211-219

Nagy, K., Meienberger, C., Bradshaw, S.D. & Wooller, R.D. 1995. Field metabolic rate of a small marsupial mammal, the honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus). Journal of Mammalogy 76: 862-866

Oates, J.E., Bradshaw, F.J. & Bradshaw, S.D. 2004. The influence of photoperiod on the reproductive activity of female honey possums, Tarsipes rostratus (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae): assessed by faecal progestagens and oestradiol-17β. General and Comparative Endocrinology 139: 103-112

Renfree, M.B. 1980. Embryonic diapause in the honey possum Tarsipes spencerae. Search 11: 81 (reproduction)

Renfree, M.B. 1995. Honey Possum Tarsipes rostratus. pp. 258-260 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Renfree, M.B., Russell, E.M. & Wooller, R.D. 1984. Reproduction and life history of the honey possum, Tarsipes rostratus. pp. 427-437 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Richardson, K.C., Wooller, R.D. & Collins, B.G. 1984. The diet of the honey possum Tarsipes rostratus. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society of Australia 9: 110-113

Richardson, K.C., Wooller, R.D. & Collins, B.G. 1986. Adaptations to a diet of nectar and pollen in the marsupial Tarsipes rostratus (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae). Journal of Zoology, London A 208: 285-298

Rosenberg, H.I. & Richardson, K.C. 1995. Cephalic morphology of the honey possum, Tarsipes rostratus (Marsupialia, Tarsipedidae) - an obligate nectarivore. Journal of Morphology 223: 303-323

Russell, E.M. 1986. Observations on the behaviour of the honey possum, Tarsipes rostratus (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae) in captivity. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 121: 1-63

Slaven, M.R. & Richardson, K.C. 1988. Aspects of the form and function of the kidney of the honey possum, Tarsipes rostratus. Australian Journal of Zoology 36: 465-471

Turner, V. 1984. Banksia pollen as a source of protein in the diet of two Australian marsupials Cercartetus nanus and Tarsipes rostratus. Oikos 43: 53-61

Withers, P.C., Richardson, K.C. & Wooller, K.D. 1990. Metabolic physiology of euthermic and torpid honey possums, Tarsipes rostratus. Australian Journal of Zoology 37: 685-693

Wooller, R.D. 1984. Reproduction in Antechinomys laniger ('spenceri' form) (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae): field and laboratory investigations. Australian Wildlife Research 11: 481-489

Wooller, R.D., Renfree, M.B., Russell, E.M., Dunning, A., Green, S.W. & Duncan, P. 1981. Seasonal changes in a population of the nectar-feeding marsupial Tarsipes spencerae (Marsupialia: Tarsipedidae). Journal of Zoology, London 195: 267-279

Wooller, R.D., Richardson, K.C. & Collins, B.G. 1993. The relationship between nectar supply and the rate of capture of a nectar-dependent small marsupial Tarsipes rostratus. Journal of Zoology, London 229: 651-658

Wooller, R.D., Russell, E.M., Renfree, M.B. & Towers, P.A. 1983. A comparison of seasonal changes in the pollen loads of nectarivorous marsupials (Tarsipes) and birds (honeyeaters). Australian Wildlife Research 10: 311-317

Common Name References

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

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Superfamily PHALANGEROIDEA

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Family PHALANGERIDAE

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31 December 1998 - G.M. McKay (1988); updated by Barry J. Richardson (1999), Centre for Biostructural and Biomolecular Research, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia

Introduction

The three genera in this family form a coherent, apparently monophyletic group, characterized by bunodont molars, conical to sectorial premolars and a strongly prehensile tail with a friction pad. The degree of nakedness of the tail varies, reaching an extreme in Wyulda. This monotypic genus occurs only in northern Western Australia and has been, as yet, only poorly studied.

Trichosurus is considered to consist of two species, one of which (T. vulpecula), has had many subspecies designated. In the taxonomic treatment in this work no subspecific arrangement for T. vulpecula is given; the available names have simply been listed.
This species has become a major pest in New Zealand (Cowan 1990).

The cuscuses have been reviewed by George (1979, 1987), Menzies & Pernetta (1986) and Colgan et al. (1993) with markedly different results and the two species found in Australia (and elsewhere) are here placed in different genera.

General References

Colgan, D., Flannery, T.F., Trimble, J. & Aplin, K. 1993. Electrophoresis and morphological analysis of the systematics of the Phalanger orientalis (Marsupialia) species complex in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 355-378

Cowan, P.E. 1990. Brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792). pp. 68-98 in King, C.M. (ed.). The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals. Auckland : Oxford University Press.

George, G.G. 1979. The status of endangered Papua New Guinea mammals. pp. 93-100 in Tyler, M.J. (ed.). The Status of Endangered Australasian Wildlife. Adelaide : Royal Zoological Society of South Australia.

George, G.G. 1987. Characterisation of the living species of cuscus (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). pp. 507-526 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.

McKay, G.M. & Winter, J.W. 1989. Phalangeridae. pp. 636-651 in Walton, D.W. & Richardson, B.J. (eds). Fauna of Australia. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1B 827 pp.

Menzies, J.I. & Pernetta, J.C. 1986. A taxonomic revision of cuscuses allied to Phalanger orientalis (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Journal of Zoology, London B 1: 551-618

Norris, C.A. 1994. The periotic bones of possums and cuscuses: cuscus polyphyly and the division of the marsupial family Phalangeridae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 111: 73-98

Springer, M., Kirsch, J.A.W., Aplin, K. & Flannery, T. 1990. DNA hybridisation, cladistics and the phylogeny of phalangerid marsupials. Journal of Molecular Evolution 30: 298-311

Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 52 The marsupial genus Phalanger. American Museum Novitates 1283: 1-41

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Genus Phalanger Storr, 1780

Phalanger Storr, G.C.C. 1780. Prodromus Methodi Mammalium. Tubingen. [33].
Type species:
Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by monotypy.
Coescoes Pallas, P.S. 1766. Miscellanea Zoologica, quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Hagae. Comitum : Petrum van Cleef xii 224 pp. xiv pls. [60] [nom. oblit.; Coescoes has generally been attributed to Lacépède, É. 1801. Mémoire sur une nouvelle table méthodique des animaux à mammelles. Mém. Inst. Paris 3: 469–502 [491]; intended as a subdivision of Didelphis].
Type species:
Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by monotypy.
Secondary source:
Lacépède, É. 1801. Mémoire sur une nouvelle table méthodique des animaux à mammelles. Mémoires de l'Institut de Paris 3: 469-502.
Phalangista Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. & Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1795. Mémoire sur une nouvelle division des mammifères, et les principes qui doivent servir de base dans cette sorte de travail. Magasin Encyclopédique. Paris : Millin, Noel et Warens Vol. 2(6) 164-190 pp. [187].
Type species:
Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by monotypy.
Balantia Illiger, J.C.W. 1811. Prodromus Systematis Mammalium et Avium, additis terminis zoographicis utriusque classis, eorumque versione Germanica. Berolini : Sumptibus C. Salfeld xvii 301 pp. [77].
Type species:
Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by subsequent designation, see 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].
Sipalus Fischer, G. 1813. Zoognosia Tabulis Synopticis Illustrata, in usum praelectionem academiae medico-chirurgicae mosquensis editae. Editio tertia. Moscow : Vsevolozsky Vol. 2. [581].
Type species:
Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by subsequent designation, see 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].
Cuscus Lesson, R.P. 1826. Description des mammifères. Ch. 3 in Lesson, R.P. & Garnot, P. Zoologie Pt 1 in Duperrey, M.L.I. Voyage Autour du Monde Exécuté par Ordre du Roi sur la Corvette de sa Majesté la Coquille Pendant les Années 1822, 1823, 1824 & 1825. Paris : Arthus Bertrand. [150] [name attributed to Lacépède without reference].
Type species:
Didelphis orientalis Pallas, 1766 by subsequent designation, see 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].
Ceonix Temminck, C.J. 1827. Monographies de Mammalogie, ou description de quelques genres de mammifères, dont les espèces ont été observées dans les différens musées d'Europe. Ouvrage accompagné de planches d'Ostéologie, pouvant servir de suite et de complément aux notices sur les animaux vivans, publiées par M. le Baron G. Cuvier, dans ses recherches sur les ossemens fossiles. Paris : G. Dufour & E. D'Ocagne Vol. 1. [10] [provisional name only; incorrectly spelled as Ceonyx in 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] and in many other 19th Century references].
Secondary source:
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].
Eucuscus Gray, J.E. 1862. Additional observations on the genus Cuscus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1861: 314-321 [7 Apr. 1862] [316] [proposed as subgenus of Cuscus Lesson, 1826].
Type species:
Phalangista ursina Temminck, 1827 by subsequent designation, see 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].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

George, G.G. 1987. Characterisation of the living species of cuscus (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). pp. 507-526 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.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia from Sulawesi to Irian Jaya.

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Distribution References

Laurie, E.M.O. & Hill, J.E. 1954. List of Land Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes and Adjacent Islands 1758–1952. London : British Museum 175 pp. 3 pls.

General References

Norris, C.A. & Musser, G.G. 2001. Systematic revision within the Phalanger orientalis complex (Diprotodontia, Phalangeridae): a third species of lowland cuscus from New Guinea and Australia. American Museum Novitates No. 3356: 1-20 [5]

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Species Phalanger mimicus Thomas, 1922

CAVS: 1122

Grey Cuscus, Grey Phalanger

Phalanger mimicus Thomas, 1922.
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 11.11.11.93 'puppet skin with skull and dentaries of an adult male', Dutch New Guinea [West Papua], Parimau, Mimika River [4°31'S 136°36'E].
Phalanger microdon Tate, G.H.H. & Archbold, R. 1935. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No.5. Seven apparently new forms of Phalangeridae from the New Guinea region. American Museum Novitates No. 810: 8 pp.
Phalanger orientalis peninsulae Tate, G.H.H. 1945. Results of the Archbold Expeditions. No. 52 The marsupial genus Phalanger. American Museum Novitates 1283: 1-41 [2].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 108905 ♂ adult skin & skull, rocky scrub, 30 miles N of Coen, QLD.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

Phalanger orientalis (Pallas, 1766) [mistaken identity, now known to be Phalanger mimicus].

Introduction

Recognised as a separate species, and P. intercastellanus removed from the Australian list by Norris & Musser (2001); since the Australian population to which the CAVS number is applied has not changed in nature, the same CAVS number is used.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Lowland, rainforest.

General References

Flannery, T.F. 1994. Possums of the World: A Monograph of the Phalangeroidea. Sydney : GEO Productions.

McKay, G.M. 1988. Phalangeridae. pp. 81-86 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [83] (as Phalanger orientalis)

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Genus Spilocuscus Gray, 1862

Spilocuscus Gray, J.E. 1862. Additional observations on the genus Cuscus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1861: 314-321 [7 Apr. 1862] [316] [proposed as subgenus of Cuscus Lesson, 1826].
Type species:
Phalangista maculata Desmarest, 1818 by subsequent designation, see 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].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

General References

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp.

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Species Spilocuscus nudicaudatus (Gould, 1850)

CAVS: 1734

Common Spotted Cuscus

Phalangista (Pseudocheirus) nudicaudata Gould, J. 1850. On new species of Mammalia and birds from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1849: 109-112 Aves pl. 12 [ante June 1850; publication date established from Sclater, P.L. 1893. List of the dates of receipt from the Printers of the sheets of the Society's 'Proceedings' from 1831 to 1859 inclusive. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 435–440 [438]] [110].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1851.1.11.17 ♀ juv., Cape York, QLD.
Subsequent designation references:
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].
Cuscus brevicaudatus Gray, J.E. 1858. Observations on the genus Cuscus, with the description of a new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1858: 100-105 [27 Apr. 1858] [102] [replacement name for Phalangista (Pseudocheirus) nudicaudata Gould, 1850].
Cuscus maculatus ochropus Gray, J.E. 1866. Notes on some Mammalia from Port Albany (Cape York Peninsula), North Australia, with the descriptions of some new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 219-221 pl. 25 [Date published 5 Sept. 1866: publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84 [72]] [220].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1866.4.23.4 ♀ juv., Somerset (as Port Albany), Cape York, QLD.
Subsequent designation references:
Thomas, O. 1922. A selection of lectotypes of the typical Australian marsupials in the British Museum Collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 10: 127-128.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

George, G.G. 1987. Characterisation of the living species of cuscus (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). pp. 507-526 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.

Introduction

Previously treated as a subspecies of the predominantly New Guinean species Spilocuscus maculatus (Desmarest, 1818), however, it was recognised as a valid species by others in Jackson & Groves (2015).

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cape York Peninsula from Coen north.

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Also in mangroves and riparian forest.

General References

Biggins, J.G. 1984. Communication in possums: a review. pp. 35-57 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Dawson, T.J. & Degabrielle, R. 1973. The cuscus (Phalanger maculatus) - a marsupial sloth? Journal of Comparative Physiology 83: 41-50

Jackson, S. & Groves, C. 2015. Taxonomy of Australian Mammals. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 520 pp. [126]

Winter, J.W. & Leung, L.K-P. 1995. Common Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus maculatus. pp. 266-268 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. (Common Spotted Cuscus)

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Genus Trichosurus Lesson, 1828

Trichosurus Lesson, R.P. 1828. in Audouin, J.V. & Bory de Saint-Vincent, J.B.G.M. (eds) Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle. [333].
Type species:
Didelphis vulpecula Kerr, 1792 by subsequent designation, see Waterhouse, G.R. 1846. A Natural History of the Mammalia.Volume 1, containing the order Marsupiata, or pouched animals. London : Baillière 553 pp. 20 pls. [298].
Cercaertus Burmeister, C.H.C. 1837. Handbuch der Naturgeschichte zum Gebrauch bei Vorlesungen. II. Zoologie. Berlin pp. 369-858. [814] [as Cercaërtus; 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] considered Cercaërtus to be an incorrect original spelling of Cercartetus Gloger, 1841 (Burramyidae)].
Type species:
Didelphis vulpina Meyer, 1793 by original designation.
Secondary source:
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].
Tapoa Owen, R. 1839. Outlines of a classification of the Marsupialia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1839: 5-19 [19] [nom. nud., see Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 also list as available publication Anon. 1839. [No title]. pp. 454 in Knight, C. (ed). Penny Cyclopaedia. London : Publisher unknown Vol. 14; Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Library of Useful Knowledge. London, but in that work it is also nom. nud.].
Secondary source:
Anon. 1839. [No title]. 454 in Knight, C. (ed.). Penny Cyclopaedia. London : Publisher unknown Vol. 14.; 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.
Psilogrammurus 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] [85].
Type species:
Didelphis vulpecula Kerr, 1792 by subsequent designation, see 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].
Trichurus Wagner, J.A. 1842. in Schreber, J.C.D. von (1774–1855) Die Säugethiere, in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen. Fortgesetzt von A. Goldfuss Supplementband von J.A. Wagner. Suppl. 3 hft 109–110. Erlangen : Voss. [74] [non Trichurus Hübner, 1816; proposed as subgenus of Phalangista Geoffroy and Cuvier, 1795].
Type species:
Didelphis vulpecula Kerr, 1792 by subsequent designation, see 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].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

McKay, G.M. 1988. Phalangeridae. pp. 81-86 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp. [83]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand, introduced.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Distribution References

Gilmore, D.P. 1977. The success of marsupials as introduced species. pp. 169-178 in Stonehouse, B. & Gilmore, D. (eds). Biology of Marsupials. London : Macmillan.

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Species Trichosurus caninus (Ogilby, 1836)

CAVS: 1735

Short-eared Brush-tailed Possum

Phalangista canina Ogilby, W. 1836. (untitled abstract). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1835: 191-192 [8 Apr. 1836] [191].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1855.12.24.211 ♂ adult skin & skull, 'beyond The Hunter River... north of Sydney'.
Subsequent designation references:
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].
Trichosurus caninus nigrans Le Souef, A.S. 1916. Notes on colour-variation of opossums of the genus Trichosurus. The Australian Zoologist 1: 62-64 [13 Mar. 1916] [64].
Type data:
Holotype AM M2301 ♂ adult skin & skull, Tweed River, NSW.

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 [32]

Generic Combinations

Trichosurus caninus (Ogilby, 1836).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, herbivore, montane, nocturnal, tall open forest.

General References

Caley, P., Spencer, N.J., Cloe, R.A. & Efford, M.G. 1998. The effect of manipulating population density on the probability of den sharing among common brushtail possums, and implications for transmission of bovine tuberculosis. Wildlife Research 25: 383-392

Claridge, A.W. & Lindenmayer, D.B. 1993. The mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus caninus Ogilby) : disseminator of fungi in the mountain ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria? Victorian Naturalist 110: 91-95

Claridge, A.W. & Lindenmayer, D.B. 1998. Consumption of hypogeous fungi by the mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus caninus) in eastern Australia. Mycological Research 102: 269-272

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

How, R.A. 1981. Population parameters in congeneric possums, Trichosurus spp. in north-eastern NSW. Australian Journal of Zoology 29: 205-215

How, R.A. 1995. Mountain Brushtail Possum Trichosurus caninus. pp. 271-272 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Kerle, J.A. 1984. Variation in the ecology of Trichosurus: its adaptive significance. pp. 115-128 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Lacy, R.C. & Lindenmayer, D.B. 1995. A simulation study of the impacts of population subdivision on the mountain brushtail possum Trichosurus caninus Ogilby (Phalangeridae, Marsupialia) in south-eastern Australia. 2. Loss of genetic variation within and betwen subpopulations. Biological Conservation 73: 131-142

Lindenmayer, D.B., Cunningham, R.B., Donnelly, C.F., Triggs, B.A. & Belvedere, M. 1994. The conservation of arboreal marsupials in the montane ash forests of the central highlands of Victoria, south-eastern Australia V. Patterns of use and the microhabitat requirements of the mountain brushtail possum Trichosurus caninus Ogilby in retained linear habitats (wildlife corridors). Biological Conservation 68: 43-51

Lindenmayer, D.B., Cunningham, R.B., Tanton, M.T., Smith, A.P. & Nix, H.A. 1990. Habitat requirements of the mountain brushtail possum and the greater glider in the montane ash-type eucalypt forests of the central highlands of Victoria. Australian Wildlife Research 17: 467-478

Lindenmayer, D.B., Viggers, K.L., Cunningham, R.B. & Donnelly, C.F. 1995. Morphological variation among populations of the mountain brushtail possum, Trichosurus caninus Ogilby (Phalangeridae, Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 449-458

Lindenmayer, D.B., Warneke, R.M., Meggs, R.A., Linga, T. & Seebeck, J.H. 1991. A note on the longevity of the mountain brushtail possum, Trichosurus caninus in the mountain ash forests of the central highlands of Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 108: 4-5

Lindenmayer, D.B., Welsh, A., Donnelly, C.F. & Meggs, R.A. 1996. Use of nest trees by the mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus caninus) (Phalangeridae, Marsupialia). 1. Number of occupied trees and frequency of tree use. Wildlife Research 23: 343-361

Lindenmayer, D.B., Welsh, A. & Donnelly, C.F. 1997. Use of nest trees by the mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus caninus) (Phalangeridae: Marsupialia). III. Spatial configuration and co-occupancy of nest trees. Wildlife Research 24: 661-678

Lindenmayer, D.B., Welsh, A. Donnelly, C.F. & Cunningham, R.B. 1996. Use of nest trees by mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus caninus) (Phalangeridae, Marsupialia). 2. Characteristics of occupied trees. Wildlife Research 23: 531-545

Lindenmayer, D.B., Welsh, A.H. & Donnelly, C.F. 1998. Use of nest trees by the mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus caninus) (Phalangeridae: Marsupialia). V. Synthesis of studies. Wildlife Research 25: 627-634

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

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Lacy, R.C. 1995. A simulation study of the impacts of population subdivision on the mountain brushtail possum Trichosurus caninus Ogilby (Phalangeridae, Marsupialia) in south-eastern Australia. 1. Demographic stability and population persistence. Biological Conservation 73: 119-129

Lindenmayer, D.B. & Lacy, R.C. 1995. Metapopulation viability of arboreal marsupials in fragmented old-growth forests: comparison among species. Ecological Applications 5: 183-199

Presidente, P.J.A. 1984. Parasites and diseases of brushtail possums (Trichosurus spp.): occurrence and significance. pp. 171-190 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Seebeck, J.H., Warneke, R.M. & Baxter, B.J. 1984. Diet of the Bobuck, Trichosurus caninus (Ogilby) (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) in a mountain forest in Victoria. pp. 145-154 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Viggers, K.L., Lindenmayer, D.B., Cunningham, R.B. & Donnelly, C.F. 1998. The effects of parasites on a wild population of the Mountain Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus caninus) in south-eastern Australia. International Journal for Parasitology 28: 747-755

Viggers, K.L. & Lindenmayer, D.B. 1996. Variation in hematological and serum biochemical values of the mountain brushtail possum, Trichosurus caninus Ogilby (Marsupialia, Phalangeridae). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 32: 142-146

Viggers, K.L. & Lindenmayer, D.B. 2004. A review of the biology of the short-eared possum Trichosurus caninus and the mountain brushtail possum Trichosurus cunninghami. pp. 490-505 in Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. (eds). The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons.

Viggers, K.L. & Lindenmyer, D.B. 1995. The use of tiletamine hydrochloride and zolazepam hydrochloride for sedation of the mountain brushtail possum, Trichosurus caninus Ogilby (Phalangeridae, Marsupialia). Australian Veterinary Journal 72: 215-216

Viggers, K.L. & Spratt, D.M. 1995. The parasites recorded from Trichosurus species (Marsupialia, Phalangeridae). Wildlife Research 22: 311-332

Welsh, A.H., Lindenmayer, D.B., Donnelly, C.F. & Ruckstahl, A. 1998. Use of nest trees by the mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus caninus) (Phalangeridae: Marsupialia). IV. Transitions between den trees. Wildlife Research 25: 611-626

Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Short-eared Brush-tailed Possum)

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Species Trichosurus cunninghami Lindenmayer, Dubach & Viggers, 2002

CAVS: 1736

Mountain Brushtail Possum

Trichosurus cunninghami Lindenmayer, D.B., Dubach, J. & Viggers, K.L. 2002. Geographical dimorphism in the mountain brushtail possum (Trichosurus caninus): the case for a new species. Australian Journal of Zoology 50: 369-393 [385].
Type data:
Holotype AM M35866 adult ♀, Tommy's Bend Road, Cambarville region, central Victoria [37°30'S 145°49'E].
Paratype(s) AM M356867-M35871 4 specimens, Cumberland Creek near Cambarville, central Victoria [37°43'S 145°53'E].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, herbivore, montane, nocturnal, tall open forest.

General References

Martin, J.K., Handasyde, K.A., Wright, C.J., Ayers, L.T., McDonald-Madden, E. & Reside, A. 2004. Aspects of the ecology of the bobuck, Trichosurus caninus in the Strathbogie Ranges, Victoria. pp. 484-489 in Goldingay, R.L. & Jackson, S.M. (eds). The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons.

Common Name References

van Dyck, S. & Strahan, R. 2008. The Mammals of Australia. Third Edition. Sydney : Reed New Holland 887 pp. (Mountain Brushtail Possum)

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Species Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)

CAVS: 1113

Common Brushtail Possum

Generic Combinations

Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792).

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

McKay, G.M. 1988. Petauridae. pp. 87-97 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.

Introduction

The status of subspecies of Trichosurus vulpecula is unresolved. The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 (Woinowski et al. 2014) recognises only three valid subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula vulpecula, T. v. arnhemensis and T. v. hypoleucus, citing Collins (2003) and Taylor & Foulks (2004). The former of these is an (unpublished) Honours thesis from James Cook University and the second a 2001 symposium paper. The six subspecies (vulpecula, arnhemensis, hypoleucus, eburacensis, johnstonii and fuliginosus) recognised here are based on the article by Kerle & How in Mammals of Australia (2008). Findings from S. Kerr's (2011) PhD. study on T. v. johnstonii, also at James Cook University, appear not to have been published, however, there is some discussion on the web of the project by her supervisor A. Krockenberger.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

All regions in suitable habitat, introduced to New Zealand.

IBRA

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Occurs in any area where suitable nest sites in trees or burrows are available.

General References

Aitkin, L.M. & Gates, G.R. 1983. Connections of the auditory cortex of the brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 22: 75-88

Baker, M.L., Canfield, P.J., Gemmell, R.T., Spencer, P.B.S. & Agar, N.S. 1995. Erythrocyte metabolism in the koala, the common brushtail possum and the whiptail wallaby. Comparative Haematology International 5: 163-169

Barlow, N.D. 1994. Predicting the effect of a novel vertebrate biocontrol agent - a model for viral vectored immunocontraception of New Zealand possums. Journal of Applied Ecology 31: 454-462

Bass, D.A. 1990. Dispersal of an introduced shrub (Crataegus monogyna) by the brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Australian Journal of Ecology 15: 227-229

Braithwaite, R.W. 1989. Shelter selection by a small mammal community in the wet-dry tropics of Australia. Australian Mammalogy 12: 55-59

Brockie, R.E. 1982. Effect of commercial hunters on the number of possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, in the Orongorongo Valley, Wellington. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 5: 21-28

Brockie, R.E., Herritty, P.J., Ward, G.D. & Fairweather, A.A.C. 1989. A population study of Hawkes Bay farmland possums, Trichosurus vulpecula. DSIR Ecology Division Report No. 26. 43 pp.

Call, R.N. & Janssens, P.A. 1984. Hypertrophied adrenocortical tissue of the Australian brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula): uniformity during reproduction. Journal of Endocrinology 101: 263-267

Callister, D.J. 1991. A review of the Tasmanian brushtail possum industry. Traffic Bulletin 161: 611-619

Clapperton, B.K. & Matthews, L.R. 1996. Trials of electric fencing for restricting the movements of common brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr. Wildlife Research 23: 571-579

Claridge, A.W. & May, T.W. 1994. Mycophagy among Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Ecology 19: 251-275

Clout, M.N. 1982. Determination of age in the brushtail possum using sections from decalcified molar teeth. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 9: 365-371

Clout, M.N. 1982. Exploitation of brushtail possum populations in theory and practice. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 5: 29-35

Clout, M.N. & Efford, M.G. 1984. Sex differences in the dispersal and settlement of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). Journal of Animal Ecology 53: 737-749

Clout, M.N. & Gaze, P.D. 1984. Brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr) in New Zealand beech (Nothofagus) forest. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 7: 147-155

Coleman, J.D., Green, W.Q. & Polson, J.G. 1985. Diet of brushtail possums over a pasture-alpine gradient in Westland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 21-35

Coleman, J.D. & Green, W.O. 1984. Variations in the sex and age distributions of brush-tailed possum populations. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 11: 313-318

Coulson, R.I. & Heron, D.C. 1981. Population, trade and management of the brush possum. pp. 37-72 in Jones, R. (ed.). Exploited and endangered wildlife. Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania Occasional Papers No. 12

Cowan, P.E. 1987. The influence of lures and relative opportunity for capture on catches of brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14: 149-161

Cowan, P.E. 1989. Changes in milk composition during lactation in the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Reproduction, Fertility and Development 1: 325-335

Cowan, P.E. 1989. Denning habits of common brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, in New Zealand lowland forest. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 63-78

Cowan, P.E. 1990. Brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792). pp. 68-98 in King, C.M. (ed.). The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals. Auckland : Oxford University Press.

Cowan, P.E. 1990. Fruits, seeds and flowers in the diet of brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, in lowland podocarp/mixed hardwood forest, Orongorongo Valley, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 17: 549-566

Cowan, P.E. 1992. The eradication of introduced possums, Trichosurus vulpecula from Kapiti Island, a New Zealand nature reserve. Biological Conservation 61: 217-226

Cowan, P.E. 1993. Effects of intensive trapping on breeding and age structure of brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, on Kapiti Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 20: 1-11

Cowan, P.E., Brockie, R.E., Smith, R.N. & Hearfield, M.E. 1997. Dispersal of juvenile brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, after a control operation. Wildlife Research 24: 279-288

Cowan, P.E. & Moeed, A. 1987. Invertebrates in the diet of brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14: 149-161

Cowan, P.E. & Rhodes, D.S. 1992. Restricting the movements of brushtail possums Trichosurus vulpecula on farmland with electric fencing. Wildlife Research 19: 47-58

Cowan, P.E. & White, A.J. 1989. Evaluation of a tooth-wear age index for brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula. Australian Wildlife Research 16: 321-322

Crisp, E.A., Cowan, P.E. & Messer, M. 1989. Changes in milk carbohydrates during lactation in the common brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Reproduction, Fertility and Development 1: 309-314

Crisp, E.A., Messer, M. & Cowan, P.E. 1989. Intestinal lactase ( betagalactosidase) and other disaccharidase activities of suckling and adult common brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Reproduction, Fertility and Development 1: 315-324

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

Curlewis, J.D. & Stone, G.M. 1985. Some effects of breeding season and castration on the prostate and epididymis of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 38: 313-326

Curlewis, J.D. & Stone, G.M. 1986. Reproduction in captive female brushtail possums Trichosurus vulpecula. Australian Journal of Zoology 34: 47-52

Driessen, M.M., Taylor, R.J. & Hocking, G.J. 1991. Trends in abundance of three marsupial species after fire. Australian Mammalogy 14: 121-124

Eckery, D.C., Tisdall, D.J., Heath, D.A. & McNatty, K.P. 1996. Morphology and function of the ovary during fetal and early neonatal life - a comparison between the sheep and brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Animal Reproduction Science 42: 551-561

Efford, M. 1998. Demographic consequences of sex-biased dispersal in a population of brushtail possums. Journal of Animal Ecology 67: 503-517

Evans, M. 1992. Diet of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) in central Australia. Australian Mammalogy 15: 25-30

Fitzgerald, A.E. 1984. Diet of the possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) in three Tasmanian forest types and its relevance to the diet of possums in New Zealand forests. pp. 137-143 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Foley, W.J., Lessak, E.V. & Brophy, J. 1987. Digestion and absorption of Eucalyptus essential oils in greater glider (Petauroides volans) and brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Journal of Chemical Ecology 13: 2115-2130

Foley, W.J. & Hume, I.D. 1987. Digestion and metabolism of high-tannin Eucalyptus foliage by the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 157: 67-76

Foley, W.J. & Hume, I.D. 1987. Nitrogen requirements and urea metabolism in two arboreal marsupials, the greater glider (Petauroides volans) and the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) fed eucalyptus foliage. Physiological Zoology 60: 241-250

Foley, W.J. & Hume, I.D. 1987. Passage of digesta markers of arboreal folivorous marsupials - the greater glider (Petauroides volans) and the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Physiological Zoology 60: 103-113

Friend, G.R. & Taylor, J.A. 1985. Habitat preferences of small mammals in tropical open-forest of the Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Ecology 10: 173-185

Gates, G.R. & Aitken, L.M. 1984. The auditory system of the common brushtail possum - from cochlea to cortex. pp. 191-196 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Gemmell, R.T. 1987. Effect of melatonin and removal of pouch young on the seasonality of births in the marsupial possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 80: 301-307

Gemmell, R.T. 1990. Influence of day length on the initiation of the breeding season of the marsupial possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 88: 605-609

Gemmell, R.T. 1995. Breeding biology of brushtail possums Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) in captivity. Australian Mammalogy 18: 1-8

Gemmell, R.T., Cepon, G. & Sernia, C. 1993. Effect of photoperiod on the breeding season of the marsupial possum Trichosurus vulpecula. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 98: 515-520

Gemmell, R.T. & Cepon, G. 1993. The development of thermoregulation in the marsupial brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 106: 167-174

Gemmell, R.T. & Hendrichz, J.K. 1993. Growth rates of the bandicoot Isoodon macrourus and the brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula. Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 141-149

Gemmell, R.T. & Sernia, C. 1992. The role of photoperiod on the initiation of the breeding season of the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 1992: 701-708

Gilmore, D.P. 1977. The success of marsupials as introduced species. pp. 169-178 in Stonehouse, B. & Gilmore, D. (eds). Biology of Marsupials. London : Macmillan.

Gilmore, D.P. 1984. Organ-body weight relationships in the common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Australian Mammalogy 7: 131-138

Green, W.O. & Coleman, J.D. 1984. Response of a brush-tailed possum population to intensive trapping. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 11: 319-328

Green, W.Q. 1984. A review of ecological studies relevant to management of the common brushtail possum. pp. 483-499 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Green, W.Q. 1986. Control of the possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) in New Zealand. pp. 249-259 in Richards, C.G.J. & Ku, T.Y. (eds). Control of mammal pests. London : Taylor and Francis.

Green, W.Q. & Coleman, J.D. 1987. Den sites of possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, and frequency of use in mixed hardwood forest in Westland, New Zealand. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 285-292

Grigor, M.R., Bennett, B.L., Carne, A. & Cowan, P.E. 1991. Whey protein of the common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula): isolation, characterization and changes in concentration in milk during lactation of transferrin, alpha-lactalbumin and serum albumin. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B 98: 451-459

Hall, L.S. & Hughes, R.L. 1987. An evolutionary perspective of structural adaptations for environmental perception and utilization by the neonatal marsupials Trichosurus vulpecula (Phalangeridae) and Didelphis virginiana (Didelphidae). pp. 257-271 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.

Harman, A.M. 1995. The optic chiasm of Australian marsupials. Australian Journal of Zoology 43: 467-477

Harris, P.M., Dellow, D.W. & Broadhurst, R.B. 1985. Protein and energy requirements and deposition in the growing brushtail possum and rex rabbit. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 425-436

Hayman, D.L. & Rodger, J.C. 1990. Meiosis in male and female Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia). Heredity 64: 251-254

Haynes, J.I. 1995. Parathyroid morphology of the brush-tail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. Anatomical Records 241: 401-410

Hogg, B.W., Catcheside, L.M., Mercer, G.J.K., Pearson, A.J. & Ashby, M.G. 1992. Carcass composition and meat quality of brush-tail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). Meat Science 31: 327-341

How, R.A. & Kerle, J.A. 1995. Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula. pp. 273-275 in Strahan, R. (ed.). The Mammals of Australia: The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney : Reed New Holland 756 pp.

Hughes, R.L. & Hall, L.S. 1984. Embryonic development in the common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula. pp. 197-212 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

James, E.A. & Green, R.H. 1982. Population structure and age determination in a series of skulls from four populations of the Tasmanian brush-tailed possum Trichosurus vulpecula. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 80: 1-12

Jollie, S.E., Scobie, S. & Coleman, M.C. 1995. Breeding capacity of female brushtail possums Trichosurus vulpecula in captivity. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 22: 325-330

Jolly, S.E. 1993. Carbon dioxide as an anaesthetic agent for use on the brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Australian Mammalogy 16: 67-68

Jolly, S.E., Eason, C.T., Frampton, C. & Gumbrell, R.C. 1994. The anticoagulent pindone causes liver damage in the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Australian Veterinary Journal 71: 220

Kerle, A. 2001. Possums: The Brushtails, Ringtails and Greater Glider. Sydney : University of NSW Press.

Kerle, J.A. 1985. Habitat preference and diet of the northern brushtail possum Trichosurus arnhemensis in the Alligator Rivers region, N.T. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 13: 161-176

Kerle, J.A. 1998. The population dynamics of a tropical possum, Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis Collett. Wildlife Research 25: 171-181

Kerle, J.A., Foulkes, J.N., Kimber, R.G. & Papenfus, D. 1992. The decline of the brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1798) in arid Australia. Rangeland Journal 14: 107-127

Kerle, J.A., McKay, G.M. & Sharman, G.B.A. 1991. A systematic analysis of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 313-331

Kerle, J.A. & Howe, C.J. 1992. The breeding biology of a tropical possum Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis (Phalangeridae: Marsupialia). Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 107-127

Kerr, J.B. & Weiss, M. 1991. Spontaneous or experimentally induced formation of a special zone in the adrenal cortex of the adult brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). American Journal of Anatomy 190: 101-117

Landsberg, J. 1987. Feeding preferences of common brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, on seedlings of a woodland eucalypt. Australian Wildlife Research 14: 361-369

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

MacLennan, D.G. 1984. The feeding behaviour and activity patterns of the brushtail possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, in an open eucalypt woodland in southeast Queensland. pp. 155-161 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Mate, K.E. & Rodger, J.C. 1991. Stability of the acrosome of the brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) and tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) in vitro and after exposure to conditions and agents known to cause capacitation or acrosomal reaction of eutherian spermatozoa. Journal of Reproduction and Fertility 91: 41-48

McArthur, C. & Turner, S. 1997. Feeding preferences of captive brushtail possums for eucalypt and acacia foliage. Tasforests 9: 155-162

McIlroy, J.C. 1983. The sensitivity of the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) to 1080 poison. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 6: 125-131

McLeod, B.J., Thompson, E.G., Crawford, J.L. & Shackell, G.H. 1997. Successful group housing of wild-caught brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). Animal Welfare 6: 67-76

Mead, R.J., Moulden, D.L. & Twigg, L.E. 1985. Significance of sulfhydryl compounds in the manifestation of fluoroacetate toxicity to the rat, brush-tailed possum, woylie and western grey kangaroo. Australian Journal of Biological Sciences 38: 139-149

Morgan, D.R. 1982. Field acceptance of non-toxic and toxic baits by populations of the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr). New Zealand Journal of Ecology 5: 36-43

Morgan, D.R. 1990. Behavioural response of brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula, to baits used in pest control. Australian Wildlife Research 17: 601-613

Morgan, D.R & Sinclair, M.J. 1983. A bibliography of the brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr). New Zealand Forest Research Institute Bulletin 25: 79

Munks, S.A., Corkrey, R. & Foley, W.J. 1996. Characteristics of arboreal marsupial habitat in the semi-arid woodlands of Northern Queensland. Wildlife Research 23: 185-195

Neylon, L. & Haight, J.R. 1983. Neocortical projections of the suprageniculate and posterior thalamic nuclei in the marsupial brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula (Phalangeridae), with a comparative commentary of the organization of the posterior thalamus in marsupial and placental mammals. Journal of Comparative Neurology 217: 357-375

O'Keefe, J.S., Stanislawek, W.L. & Heath, D.D. 1997. Pathological studies of wobbly possum disease in New Zealand brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula). Veterinary Record 141: 226-229

Owen, H.J. & Norton, D.A. 1995. The diet of introduced brushtail possums Trichosurus vulpecula in a low-diversity New Zealand Nothofagus forest and possible implications for conservation management. Biological Conservation 71: 339-346

Paterson, B.M., Morris, R.S., Weston, J. & Cowan, P.E. 1995. Foraging and denning patterns of brushtail possums, and their possible relationship to contact with cattle and the transmission of bovine tuberculosis. New Zealand Veterinary Journal 43: 281-288

Presidente, P.J.A. 1982. Common brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula: maintenance in captivity, blood values, diseases and parasites. pp. 55-66 in Evans, D.D. (ed.). The Management of Australian Mammals in Captivity. Proceedings of the Scientific Meeting of the Australian Mammal Society, Healesville, Victoria, February 1979. Melbourne : Zoological Board of Victoria 194 pp.

Reddell, P., Spain, A.V. & Hopkins, M. 1997. Dispersal of spores of mycorrhizal fungi in scats of native mammals in tropical forests of northeastern Australia. Biotropica 29: 184-192

Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls. [224] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement T. arnhemensis treated as a separate species)

Roberts, M.G. 1996. The dynamics of bovine tuberculosis in possum population, and its eradication or control by culling or vaccination. Journal of Animal Ecology 65: 451-464

Rodger, J.C., Cousins, S.J. & Mate, K.E. 1991. A simple glycerol-based freezing protocol for the semen of a marsupial Trichosurus vulpecula, the common brushtail possum. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 3: 119-125

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

Sanderson, K.J. 1984. Development of the visual system in the brushtailed possum. pp. 145-154 in Stone, J., Dreher, B. & Rapaport, D.H. (eds). Development of visual pathways in mammals. New York : Alan R. Liss.

Sanderson, K.J. & O'Driscoll, M. 1986. Breeding season of brushtail possums, Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae), in Adelaide. Australian Mammalogy 9: 139-140

Shepherd, K.A., Wardell-Johnson, G.W., Loneragan, W.A. & Bell, D.T. 1997. Diet of the herbivorous marsupials in a Eucalyptus marginata forest and their impact on the understorey. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 80: 47-54

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Statham, H.L. 1984. The diet of Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr) in four Tasmanian forest locations. pp. 213-219 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Statham, M. & Statham, H.L. 1997. Movements and habits of brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr) in an urban area. Wildlife Research 24: 715-726

Thomas, M.D., Warburton, B. & Coleman, J.D. 1984. Brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) movements about an erosion-control planting of poplars. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 11: 429-436

Triggs, S.J. 1990. Population genetics of the brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula (Marsupialia: Phalangeridae) in southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 37: 545-551

Tulsi, R.S. 1983. Architecture of the basal region of the subcommissural organ in the brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Cell and Tissue Research 232: 637-650

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Ward, G.D. 1984. Comparison of trap- and radio-revealed home ranges of the brush-tailed possum (Trichosurus vulpecula Kerr) in New Zealand lowland forest. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 11: 85-92

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Common Name References

ABRS 2001. Census of Australian Vertebrates. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Common Brushtail Possum)

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Subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis Collett, 1897

CAVS: 1114

Trichosurus vulpecula arnhemensis Collett, R. 1897. On a collection of mammals from north and north-west Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1897: 317-336 pl. 23 [1 Aug. 1897] [328] [first raised to specific status, without comment, by Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford Univ. Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls].
Type data:
Syntype(s) UZMO 1075 ♂ skin & skull, Daly river, NT (Katherine river also in original, but restricted to Daly River).
Type locality references:
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.
Secondary source:
Ride, W.D.L. 1970. A Guide to the Native Mammals of Australia. Melbourne : Oxford University Press xiv 249 pp. 62 pls.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

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Subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula eburacensis Lonnberg, 1916

CAVS: 1737

Trichosurus vulpecula eburacensis Lönnberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. II. Mammals from Queensland. 1. List of mammals. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(2): 3-11 [18 Jan. 1916] [9].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NHRM Typ. 62, Olen Creek, between Coleman River and Mitchell River, Cape York, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

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Subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula fuliginosus (Ogilby, 1831)

CAVS: 1741

Phalangista fuliginosa Ogilby, W. 1831. (untitled abstract). Proceedings of the Committee of the Zoological Society London 1831: 135-136 [Oct. 1831] [135].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1855.12.24.212 ♂ adult skin & skull, TAS (original 'said to have been from Sydney').
Subsequent designation references:
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].
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.R. 1846. A Natural History of the Mammalia.Volume 1, containing the order Marsupiata, or pouched animals. London : Baillière 553 pp. 20 pls. [289].
Phalangista cuvieri Waterhouse, G.R. 1841. The natural history of Marsupialia or pouched animals. In, Jardine, W. (ed.). The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. Edinburgh & London : W.H. Lizars & H.G. Bohn Vol. 11 xvi 323 pp. [Date published Aug. 1841] [numbered Vol. 30 in The Naturalist's Library in order of issue] [268].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1838.10.11.3 ♂ adult skin, probably TAS.
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.R. 1846. A Natural History of the Mammalia.Volume 1, containing the order Marsupiata, or pouched animals. London : Baillière 553 pp. 20 pls. [293].
Trichosurus vulpecula ruficollis Schwarz, E. 1909. Über zwei mit Trichosurus vulpecula verwandte Kusus. Zoologischer Anzeiger 34: 625-626 [626] [the description is of a large dark form and is based upon two living specimens in the Frankfurt Zoo].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (Iredale, T. & Troughton, E. le G. 1934. A check-list of the mammals recorded from Australia. Mem. Aust. Mus. 6: i–xii 1–122 say 'Murchison Dist., WA' but there is a Murchison in NSW, in VIC and in TAS), 'Murchison District', probably TAS on the basis of Schwarz's description.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

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Subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula hypoleucus (Wagner, 1855)

CAVS: 1740

Koomal, Kumari

Phalangista hypoleucus Wagner, J.A. 1855. Schreber's die Säugethiere, in Addildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen. Fortgesetzt von A. Goldfuss. Supplementband von J.A. Wagner. Suppl. 5. [273].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMB A9506 ♀, Stirling Range, WA.
Subsequent designation references:
Schwarz, E. 1909. Über zwei mit Trichosurus vulpecula verwandte Kusus. Zoologischer Anzeiger 34: 625-626.

Generic Combinations

Trichosurus vulpecula hypoleucus (Wagner, 1855).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

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Subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula johnstoni (Ramsay, 1888)

CAVS: 1738

Coppery Brush-tailed Possum

Phalangista johnstonii Ramsay, E.P. 1888. Notes on the fauna of the Bellenden-Ker Ranges. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1295-1299 [Date published 7 Dec. 1831] [1297].
Type data:
Lectotype AM M120 ♂ adult skin with skull not removed, probably Atherton Tableland (as Bellenden Ker Range), QLD.
Subsequent designation references:
McKay, G.M. 1988. Phalangeridae. pp. 81-86 in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia Volume 5. Mammalia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service x 274 pp.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

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Subspecies Trichosurus vulpecula vulpecula (Kerr, 1792)

CAVS: 1739

Didelphis vulpecula Kerr, R. 1792. The Animal Kingdom, or zoological system, of the celebrated Sir Charles Linnaeus; Class 1. Mammalia, containing a complete systematic description, arrangement, and nomenclature, of all the known species and varieties of the Mammalia, or animals which give suck to their young; being a translation of that part of the Systema Naturae, as lately published, with great improvements, by Professor Gmelin of Goettingen. Together with numerous additions from more recent zoological writers, and illustrated with copper plates. London : J. Murray & R. Faulder 1 Pt 1 xl 400 pp. 9 pls. [198] [based on 'Vulpine Opossum' of Anon. in Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.].
Type data:
Status unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW.
Secondary source:
Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.
Didelphis vulpina Meyer, F.A.A. 1793. Systematisch-Summarische Uebersicht der neuesten Zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika. Nebst zwey andern Zoologischen Abhandlungen. Leipzig : Dykischen Buchhandlung 184 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [23] [based on 'Vulpine Opossum' of Anon. in Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.].
Type data:
Status unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW.
Secondary source:
Phillip, A. 1789. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers, which have been obtained from the several Departments. To which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall; with an account of their new discoveries embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans and views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &c. London : J. Stockdale lxxiv 298 pp.
Didelphis tapouaru Meyer, F.A.A. 1793. Systematisch-Summarische Uebersicht der neuesten Zoologischen Entdeckungen in Neuholland und Afrika. Nebst zwey andern Zoologischen Abhandlungen. Leipzig : Dykischen Buchhandlung 184 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84] [24] [based on 'Wha Tapoa Roo' of Hunter, J. in White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. London : J. Debrett xviii 299 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84]].
Type data:
Status unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW.
Secondary source:
White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. London : J. Debrett xviii 299 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84].
Didelphis lemurina Shaw, G. 1800. General Zoology or systematic natural history. Quadrupeds. London : G. Kearsley Vol. 1Pt 2 i-viii pp. 249-552. [487] [based on 'Wha Tapoa Roo' of Hunter, J. in White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. London : J. Debrett xviii 299 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84]].
Type data:
Status unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW.
Secondary source:
White, J. 1790. Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions. London : J. Debrett xviii 299 pp. [publication date established from Duncan, F.M. 1937. On the dates of publication of the Society's 'Proceedings', 1859–1926. With an appendix containing the dates of publication of 'Proceedings', 1830–1858, compiled by the late F.H. Waterhouse, and of the 'Transactions', 1853–1869, by the late Henry Peavot, originally published in P.Z.S. 1893, 1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 107: 71–84].
Ursus novaehollandiae Bechstein, J.M. 1800. Thomas Pennant's allgemeine Uebersicht der vierfüssigen Thiere.Aus dem englischen übersetzt aud mit Anmerkungen und Zusätzen versehen von J.M. Bechstein. Weimar : Industrie-Comptoir's Vol. 2 xi 323-768 pls 35-54. [337] [based on 'New Holland Bear' in Pennant, T. 1783. History of the Quadrupeds. London : B. White xxiv 566 +14 pp. 52 pls].
Type data:
Status unknown, vicinity of Sydney, NSW.
Secondary source:
Pennant, T. 1783. History of the Quadrupeds. London : B. White xxiv 566 +14 pp. 52 pls.
Phalangista xanthopus Ogilby, W. 1831. (untitled abstract). Proceedings of the Committee of the Zoological Society London 1831: 135-136 [Oct. 1831] [135].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (last recorded by Waterhouse op. cit.,), Glenelg River, VIC.
Type locality references:
Waterhouse, G.R. 1846. A Natural History of the Mammalia.Volume 1, containing the order Marsupiata, or pouched animals. London : Baillière 553 pp. 20 pls. [269-295].
Trichosurus vulpecula mesurus Thomas, O. 1926. On various animals obtained during Capt. Wilkin's expedition in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 17: 625-635 [June 1926] [633].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1908.8.8.114 ♀ adult, Inkerman, near Ayr, QLD.
Trichosurus vulpecula raui Finlayson, H.H. 1963. The brush-tailed opossum of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 87: 17-22 [Dec. 1963] [18].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA M2518 ♂ adult skin & skull, Rocky River, Flinders Chase Natl. Park, Kangaroo Is., SA.

Distribution

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New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

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NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

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Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

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Phalangista cookii Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1824. [title not known]. pp. 1-45 in Geoffroy [Saint-Hilaire], É. & Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. (eds). Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères, avec des figures originales colorées, dessinées d'après des animaux vivants; publiée sous l'authorité de l'Administration du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : Publisher unknown Vol. 3. [Livr. 45, unpaginated] [junior homonym of Phalangista cookii Desmarest, 1818].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (not found in MNHP), Australia; see Beaufort (1966).
Type locality references:
Beaufort, F. de 1966. Catalogue des types des mammifères du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. VI Monotremata. VII Marsupialia. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 2 38(5): 509-553.
Phalangista bougainvillei Fischer, J.B. 1829. Synopsis Mammalium. Stuttgardtiae : J.G. Cottae xlii 752 pp. [583 misprinted as 383] [based on 'Phalanger de Bougainville' of Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. 1829. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Nouv. édn. Paris : Deterville 1 pp. [183]].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP Nouv. Cat. Gal. Nº 228 ♂, Australia.
Secondary source:
Cuvier, L.G.C. 1829. Le Règne Animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle, des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Paris : Déterville Vol. 4 2nd Edn., xxvii, 584 pp.
Phalangista fuliginosa grisea Gray, J.E. 1841. Contributions towards the geographical distribution of the Mammalia in Australia, with notes on some recently discovered species, in a letter addressed to the Author. Appendix C. pp. 397-414 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [401] [nom. nud.].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1841.1225 adult mounted skin (not found 1980), Circular Head, near Stanley, TAS.
Phalangista felina Wagner, J.A. 1842. in Schreber, J.C.D. von (1774–1855) Die Säugethiere, in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen. Fortgesetzt von A. Goldfuss Supplementband von J.A. Wagner. Suppl. 3 hft 109–110. Erlangen : Voss. [76].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia (as New Holland).
Phalangista melanura Wagner, J.A. 1842. in Schreber, J.C.D. von (1774–1855) Die Säugethiere, in Abbildungen nach der Natur, mit Beschreibungen. Fortgesetzt von A. Goldfuss Supplementband von J.A. Wagner. Suppl. 3 hft 109–110. Erlangen : Voss. [81] [replacement name for Phalangista cookii Cuvier, 1824].
Secondary source:
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.
Phalangista selma Gervais, F.L.P. 1847. In D'Orbigny, C. (ed.) Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris : M.M. Renard, Martinet et Cie Vol. 9. [704] [in error for P. felina Wagner, 1842].

Ecological Descriptors

Closed forest, folivore, nocturnal, omnivore, open forest, subtropical, terrestrial, tropical, woodland.

History of changes

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Suborder PHALANGERIDA

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Superfamily BURRAMYOIDEA

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Genus Burramys Broom, 1896

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Species Burramys parvus Broom, 1896

Mountain Pygmy-possum

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Genus Cercartetus Gloger, 1841

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Species Cercartetus caudatus (Milne-Edwards, 1877)

Long-tailed Pygmy Possum

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Subspecies Cercartetus caudatus macrurus (Mjöberg, 1916)

Long-tailed Pygmy Possum

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Species Cercartetus concinnus (Gould, 1845)

Western Pygmy-possum

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