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Feather-tailed Gliders and Possums
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Feather-tailed Gliders and Possums

Acrobatidae

The Acrobatidae are a small family of gliding marsupials containing two genera, each with a single species, the feathertail glider (Acrobates pygmaeus) from Australia and feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) from New Guinea.

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2 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Feather-tailed Gliders

genusAcrobates

Feather-tailed Possums

genusDistoechurus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 42713.