Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse 1839

Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse, 1839. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1838:152 [1839]. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales. DISTRIBUTION: SE South Australia to Cape York Peninsula (Queensland), Tasmania (introduction), N Northern Territory, NE Western Australia; New Guinea and adjacent small islands, including Bismarck Arch.; Aru Isis and N Moluccas (Indonesia). STATUS: Common. SYNONYMS: ariel, biacensis, flavidus, kohlsi, longicaudatus, notatus, papuanus, tafa. COMMENTS: See Smith (1973, Mammalian Species, 30). McAllan and Bruce (1989) argued that the original publication of this name was in The Athenaeum, 580:880 [8 Dec 1838].Published as part of Colin P. Groves, 1993, Order Diprotodontia, pp. 45-62 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735307