KREFFT'S GLIDER

Photographed in Little Desert National Park, Victoria, September 2017

66                KREFFT'S GLIDER                Petaurus breviceps (Now changed to Petaurus notatus)    

AUSTRALIA                66

Common and widespread in wet and dry sclerophyll forest and woodland from cool temperate se to wet/dry tropical n. Introduced to Tasmania. Nocturnal, arboreal; Eats arboreal arthropods, nectar, pollen, manna.

NOTE: Sugar Glider has been split into three separate species. This is the species now know as Krefft's Glider. Krefft's is the most widespread in Australia, coming from Victoria, NSW (west of Dividing Range) and Queensland (except narrow coastal strip).