Northern large flying bagger
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Northern large flying bagger ( Petauroides minor ) |
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The northern large flight bagger ( Petauroides minor ) is a mammal from the family of the ring bagger (Pseudocheiridae). It occurs in northeastern Australia, in northern Queensland between Townsville in the south and Cairns in the north. The northern large flying bagger was originally considered a subspecies of Petauroides volans (now southern large flying bagger ). In the marsupial volume of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World , a standard work of mammalogy , published in 2015 , it is listed as an independent species.
features
The animals reach a head body length of 30 to 40 cm, have a 40 to 48 cm long tail and weigh 700 to 900 g. This makes the species the smallest of the giant glide pouches . Compared to the southern large flying butler ( Petauroides volans ), the northern large flying butler has a slimmer body and shorter ears. There are no bright spots at the base of the ears. The northern large flying bagger is colored gray, hands and feet are dark gray. The fur on the back and sides of the body is evenly colored, without a dark zone in the middle of the back. A central, dark stripe is only found on the top of the head and on the top of the tail. Like the two other types of giant glide pouches, this type has glide membranes that extend from the elbow to the heel and enable the animals to glide.
Habitat and way of life
The northern large flying bagger lives in tropical hardwood forests . The way of life of the species has not yet been researched in detail. It probably corresponds to a large extent to that of the more well-researched southern large-scale flying bucket.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Stephen Jackson: Family Pseudocheiridae (Ring-tailed Possums and Greater Gliders). Pp. 665-666 in Don E. Wilson , Russell A. Mittermeier : Handbook of the Mammals of the World - Volume 5. Monotremes and Marsupials. Lynx Editions, 2015, ISBN 978-84-96553-99-6