Petauridae
Author
Russell A. Mittermeier
Author
Don E. Wilson
text
2015
2015-06-30
Lynx Edicions
Barcelona
Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 5 Monotremes and Marsupials
52
565
book chapter
82885
10.5281/zenodo.6656820
33014368-4847-47c4-8f7c-f5fd87d6682a
978-84-96553-99-6
6656820
Family
PETAURIDAE
(STRIPED POSSUMS, LEADBEATER’S POSSUM AND LESSER GLIDERS)
• Medium-sized arboreal marsupials with strong facial markings and one or more distinct dorsal stripes. • 30-80 cm.
• Australasian Region.
• Montane forest, lowland forest, and sclerophyll forest and woodland, some species in rainforest.
• 3 genera, 12 species, 18 taxa.
• | species Critically Endangered, 3 species Endangered; no species Extinct since 1600.