Squirrel Glider

Squirrel Glider

Taxobox
name = Squirrel GliderMSW3 Groves|pages=55]


status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
status_ref = IUCN2006|assessors=Australasian Marsupial & Monotreme Specialist Group|year=1996|id=16728|title=Petaurus norfolcensis|downloaded=2006-05-11]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
infraclassis = Marsupialia
ordo = Diprotodontia
familia = Petauridae
genus = "Petaurus"
species = "P. norfolcensis"
binomial = "Petaurus norfolcensis"
binomial_authority = (Kerr, 1792)The Squirrel Glider ("Petaurus norfolcensis") is a gliding mammal of the marsupial family Petauridae. It is one of the wrist-winged gliders of the "Petaurus" genus.

Like most of the wrist-winged gliders, the Squirrel Glider is endemic to Australia. It is about twice the size of the related Sugar Glider ("P. breviceps"). The Squirrel Glider eats mostly fruit and insects. They can glide up to 15 metres from tree to tree. They tend not to glide in captivity.

Similar species are the Sugar Glider and the Mahogany Glider. [Menkhorst, P. and Knight, F. (2001). "A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia". Oxford University Press (pp. 94-95). ISBN 0-19-550870-X] ["Wildlife of Tropical North Queensland" (First printed in 2000). Queensland Museum Publication (p. 337). ISBN 0-7242-9349-3]

References

External links

* [http://www.wildlife.org.au/wildlife.php?page=w-gliders1.html Gliders in the Spotlight] — Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland
* [http://www.marsupialsociety.org/squirrel_glider.html Keeping squirrel gliders in captivity] (Marsupial Society)
* [http://www6.semo.edu/biograd/Theses/Liz%20Flaherty%20Thesis.pdf Elizabeth Ann Flaherty: Locomotor performance and cost of transport in the squirrel glider, Petaurus Norfolcensis (Petauridae) (pdf)]


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