Authority citation

Thomas, O. 1888. Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). British Museum (Natural History), British Museum Catalogue, 401 pp.

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Original name as described

Petaurus breviceps var. papuanus

Type material

BMNH:Mamm:1876.7.5.5

Type kind

holotype

Type specimen URI

Type locality

"Huon Gulf, E. New Guinea," Papua New Guinea.

Biogeographic realm

Australasia

Country distribution

Indonesia · Papua New Guinea

Taxonomy notes

tentatively split from P. breviceps (and was included under P. notatus tentatively); the Australian populations of P. breviceps were recently split into 3 species, P. breviceps, P. ariel, and P. notatus, but the New Guinea populations were not attributed to any of these; here, the New Guinea populations are included under the species P. papuanus tentatively based on previous molecular data, but this arrangement is considered tentative and further revision is needed in this group

Taxonomy notes citation

Malekian, M., Cooper, S. J., Norman, J. A., Christidis, L., & Carthew, S. M. (2010). Molecular systematics and evolutionary origins of the genus Petaurus (Marsupialia: Petauridae) in Australia and New Guinea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 54(1), 122-135. · Cremona, T., Baker, A. M., Cooper, S. J., Montague-Drake, R., Stobo-Wilson, A. M., & Carthew, S. M. (2021). Integrative taxonomic investigation of Petaurus breviceps (Marsupialia: Petauridae) reveals three distinct species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 191(2), 503-527.

IUCN Red List status

Not Evaluated

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