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Greater Glider on Wikipedia [1] which links to the Nature paper Genetic evidence supports three previously described species of greater glider, Petauroides volans, P. minor, and P. armillatus [2]:

> The greater glider is the common name for three species of large gliding marsupials found in Australia. Until 2020 they were considered to be one species, Petauroides volans. In 2020 morphological and genetic differences, obtained using diversity arrays technology, showed there were three species subsumed under this one name. The two new species were named Petauroides armillatus and Petauroides minor. [2]

Marsupial diversity in Australia is amazing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_glider

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76364-z




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