Join our zoo community
Dannelboyz

Krefft's/Sugar Glider

Seen in Mallacoota... not sure if the recently-split species overlap around this area or if this is only within Krefft's Glider range.

Krefft's/Sugar Glider
Dannelboyz, 25 Jan 2021
    • Chlidonias
      The paper describing the splits defined breviceps (the Sugar Glider) as having a distribution reaching south to Eden in NSW (c.50km north of Mallacoota), which would make all of Victoria solely within notatus (Krefft's Glider) range. The authors stated that there is no evidence of distributional overlap between the two species, however they also (understandably) made a point of noting that given the pretty close proximity of samples at the Victoria/NSW border area further study was needed to confirm whether they did or did not overlap in reality.
      25 Jan 2021
      Dannelboyz likes this.
    • Dannelboyz
      @Chlidonias yes, I noticed that the original paper suggests breviceps do not make it into Victoria. Interestingly, the HMW illustrated checklist states that breviceps extends into eastern Victoria, which made me wonder if there was any additional information floating around... Given the split is based on just the one paper, I find it hard to be confident in such hard range boundaries where there is no obvious geographical feature to encourage speciation.
      25 Jan 2021
      Terry Thomas likes this.
    There are no comments to display.
  • Category:
    Australia - Wildlife
    Uploaded By:
    Dannelboyz
    Date:
    25 Jan 2021
    View Count:
    1,311
    Comment Count:
    2

    EXIF Data

    File Size:
    10 MB
    Mime Type:
    image/jpeg
    Width:
    4000px
    Height:
    6000px
    Date / Time:
    2021:01:24 15:16:13
     

    Note: EXIF data is stored on valid file types when a photo is uploaded. The photo may have been manipulated since upload (rotated, flipped, cropped etc).