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Greater glider - SCHOINOBATES VOLANS
Possibly Endangered
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: Changing Mammals (Metatheria)
Order: Pouched Mammals (Marsupialia)
Family: Petauridae.

 


Greater Glider population in the Bingi-Congo area of the Eurobodalla LGA - profile
Scientific name: Petaurides volans - endangered population
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered Population
Description ...

Using NIRS equations developed from feeding trials with captive greater gliders and common ringtails we are able to make direct estimates of the nutritional value of individual eucalypt trees as well as whole eucalypt forests.

The possum family Pseudocheiridae includes ringtail possums and greater gliders, which are superficially quite different (ringtails are generalized arboreal possums with long, prehensile tails, ...

See also: Possum, Marsupial, Sugar glider, Ringtail, Yellow-bellied