Species Petauroides minor (Collett, 1887)

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Distribution References

Common Name References

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
23-Aug-2021	Petauroides Thomas, 1888	05-Aug-2021	MODIFIED
29-Oct-2010		29-Oct-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)