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Leadbeater's possum
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Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) is a possum lairgely restrictit tae smaw pockets o alpine ash, muntain ash an snaw gum forests in the Central Highlands o Victoria, Australie, north-east o Melbourne.[3] It is primitive, relict, an nan-glidin, an, as the anerly species in the petaurid genus Gymnobelideus, represents a ancestral fuirm. Umwhile, Leadbeater's possums wur moderately common athin the vera smaw auries they inhabitit; their requirement for year-roond fuid supplies an tree-holes tae tak refuge in durin the day restricts thaim tae mixed-age wet sclerophyll forest wi a dense mid-story o Acacia. The species wis namit efter John Leadbeater, the then taxidermist at the Museum Victoria.[4] They also go by the common name of fairy possum.[5] On 2 Mairch 1971,[6] the State of Victoria made the Leadbeater's possum its faunal emblem.[7]
Leadbeater's possum[1] | |
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Taxidermy specimen | |
Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Infracless: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Diprotodontia |
Faimily: | Petauridae |
Genus: | Gymnobelideus |
Species: | G. leadbeateri |
Binomial name | |
Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy, 1867 | |
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Leadbeater's possum range |