Genus Petaurus Shaw, 1791

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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 and IMCRA regions

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

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2024		29-Oct-2010	MOVED
29-Oct-2010		29-Oct-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)