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Petaurus australis (Yellow-bellied Glider)

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis) is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in a narrow range of native eucalypt forests down eastern Australia, reaching from northern Queensland to Victoria.
View Wikipedia Record: Petaurus australis

Infraspecies

Petaurus australis australis
Petaurus australis reginae

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.56
EDGE Score: 2.26
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.263 lbs (573 g)
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Nectarivore, Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  40 %
Diet - Nectar [2]  30 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Diet - Vertibrates [2]  10 %
Forages - Arboreal [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  1 year 12 months
Litter Size [1]  1
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  15 years
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [3]  12 inches (30 cm)
Weaning [1]  5 months 2 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Croajingolong National Park II 217067 Victoria, Australia
Dunggir National Park II 6402 New South Wales, Australia
Lamington National Park II 50970 Queensland, Australia
Maria National Park II 5735 New South Wales, Australia
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Eucalyptus pellita (Large-fruited red mahogany)[4]
Eucalyptus pilularis (blackbutt)[4]
Eucalyptus piperita (Sydney peppermint-tree)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Choristopsylla tristis[5]
Rodentolepis fraterna[6]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4The foraging behaviour of a nectar feeding marsupial, Petaurus australis, Ross L. Goldingay, Oecologia (1990) 85:191-199
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0