SUGAR GLIDER

Taken at Mungo Brush NP, December 2020

 127                   SUGAR GLIDER                  Petaurus breviceps

AUSTRALIA                127

Small, omnivorous, arboreal, and nocturnal marsupial.

NOTE: Sugar Glider has been split into three separate species. This is the species now know as Sugar Glider. 

NORTHERN GREATER GLIDER

Photographed near Atherton, Queensland, November 2017

85                 NORTHERN GREATER GLIDER             Petauroides minor

AUSTRALIA              85

Australia's largest glider. Found in eucalyptus forest and woodland. Mostly arboreal, solitary, nocturnal. Normally does not need much to drink.

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).