Falangero Planeador de Australia Oriental
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Photo © Terra Occ — CC BY 4.0 — Source: iNaturalist #340678581Krefft's glider (Petaurus notatus) is a species of arboreal nocturnal gliding possum, a type of small marsupial. It is native to most of eastern mainland Australia and has been introduced to Tasmania. Populations of Petaurus from New Guinea and Indonesia previously classified under P. breviceps are also tentatively classified under P. notatus by the American Society of Mammalogists, but likely represent a complex of distinct species. As most captive gliders referred to as "sugar gliders" in at least the United States are thought to originate from West Papua, this likely makes them Krefft's gliders, at least tentatively. == Taxonomy == It is closely allied with the sugar glider (P. breviceps), with which it was long taxonomically confused. A 2020 study partially clarified the taxonomy of the sugar glider and split it into three species: the savanna glider (P. ariel), the sugar glider (P. breviceps sensu stricto) and Krefft's glider (P. notatus). The large range throughout eastern Australia once attributed to the sugar glider is now thought to actually be that of Krefft's glider; under the new taxonomy, the sugar glider has a smaller range in the coastal forests of Queensland and New South Wales. == Names == The species common…
Kroombit Tops National Park
Carnarvon National Park
Herberton Range National Park
Greater Bendigo National Park
Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park
Lower Glenelg National Park
Budj Bim National Park
Naracoorte Caves National Park
Morton National Park
Great Sandy National Park
Wooroonooran National Park
Kosciuszko National Park
Grampians National Park
Great Otway National Park
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