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Taxon: Family Petauridae Bonaparte, 1838 - gliding, ring-tailed, and striped possums (mammal)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation (C.L. Bonaparte, 1838) Kirsch, 1968
Original name Bonaparte, C.L. 1838:112.
Subsequent rank 1968. Kirsch, 1968: 420.

Types

Nominotypical taxon ofPetauroidea (Superfamily) Bonaparte, 1838
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]Petaurinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1832
TypePetaurus (Genus) Shaw, 1791

Variants

Different rankPetaurinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1832

Synonyms

InPhalangeridae (Family) Thomas, 1888 Ref: G.G. Simpson, 1945

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full namebuideleekhoorns

Vernacular Names (English)

Full namegliding, ring-tailed, and striped possums
ringtails Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
ringtail possums Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
gliding phalangers Ref: G.B. Corbet & J.E. Hill, 1991
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