THE FEATHER-TAILED GLIDER (Acrobates pygmeus) IN NEW GUINEA

Kristofer M. Helgen (South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia and Department of Environmental Biology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005)

TREUBIA
Vol 33, No 1 (2003): Vol. 33 No. 1, December 2003

Acrobates pygmeus is a small arboreal marsupial thought to be restricted to eastern Australia, from southeastern South Australia to the tip of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. Here I discuss the possibility that the species also occurs in New Guinea, based on two poorly-localized museum specimens (in London and Stockholm) supposedly collected from that island.Key words: Feather-tailed glider, Acrobates pygmeus, Acrobatidae, marsupials, New Guinea