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Petaurus (wrist-winged glider)

Mammalia - Diprotodontia - Petauridae

Taxonomy
Petaurus was named by Shaw (1791). It is extant. It is the type genus of Petauridae.

It was reranked as Sciurus (Petaurus) by Kerr (1792).

It was assigned to Sciurus by Kerr (1792); to Phalangistina by Gray (1825); to Petauridae by Springer et al. (1994); and to Petaurinae by McKenna and Bell (1997).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1791Petaurus Shaw
1792Sciurus (Petaurus) Kerr
1814Ptilotus Fischer
1825Petaurus Gray p. 340
1839Petaurus (Belideus) Waterhouse
1841Xenochirus Gloger
1916Petaurus (Petaurella) Matschie
1916Petaurus (Petaurula) Matschie
1994Petaurus Springer et al. p. 86
1997Petaurus McKenna and Bell p. 66

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
subclassMetatheria()
—Marsupialiformes
—Marsupialia()
—AustralidelphiaSzalay 1982
orderDiprotodontiaOwen 1866
suborderPhalangeriformesSzalay 1982
familyPetauridaeBonaparte 1838
genusPetaurusShaw 1791

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Petaurus Shaw 1791 [wrist-winged glider]
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Petaurus breviceps Waterhouse 1839 [sugar glider]
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Petaurus breviceps flavidus Tate and Archbold 1935
Petaurus breviceps tafa Tate and Archbold 1935
Invalid names: Petaurus (Belideus) notatus Peters 1859 [synonym], Petaurus kohlsi Troughton 1945 [synonym]
Petaurus gracilis De Vis 1883 [mahogany glider]
Petaurus norfolcensis Kerr 1792 [squirrel glider]
Invalid names: Petaurus (Belideus) Waterhouse 1839 [invalid subgroup], Petaurus (Petaurella) Matschie 1916 [invalid subgroup], Petaurus (Petaurula) Matschie 1916 [invalid subgroup], Ptilotus Fischer 1814 [objective synonym], Xenochirus Gloger 1841 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available